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11th July 2023 – This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
‘Beautifully believable and appallingly sad … One of the most acute, affecting and aphoristic novels of recent years … A hallucinatory and haunting vision.’ (The Guardian) This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s…
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14th March 2023 – Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. New research shows that these marvellous creatures display remarkable gifts, with each of their tentacles even…
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14th February 2023 – Mrs Bridge and/or Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell
Two companion short novels each telling their side of the story about a marriage. Published as Penguin Modern Classics, we are inviting you to read one of the books, or both. These are thought-provoking and poignant novels that offer a compelling look at the lives of an ordinary couple living in an extraordinary time. Mrs.…
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10th January 2023 – Slow Horses by Mick Herron
‘The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War’ The Times Slough House is the outpost where disgraced spies are banished to see out the rest of their derailed careers. Known as the ‘slow horses’ these misfits have committed crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal while on duty.…
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13th December 2022 – The Sheriff of Geneva by Richard Williams
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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11th October 2022 – Four Dervishes by Hammad Rind
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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10th May 2022 – The Promise by Damon Galgut
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!