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12th April 2022 – The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
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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8th March 2022 – Llyfr Glas Nebo | The Blue Book of Nebo gan | by Manon Steffan Ros
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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8th February 2022: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a historical fiction book written and illustrated by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. It takes place in France as a young boy finds his purpose. The hardcover edition was released on January 30, 2007, and the paperback edition was released on June 2, 2008. With 284 pictures between…
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11th January 2022: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
irteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive Kitteridge.
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8pm, 12th Jan 2021 – In My Mind’s Eye by Jan Morris
Jan Morris, who passed away in November 2020, was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.
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8pm, 9th Feb 2021 – The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor
Resonant of the eerie tone and claustrophobic atmosphere of Stephen King at his best, The Chalk Man is a spine-chilling, dread-filled tale of a game turned nightmare.
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8pm, 9th Mar 2021 – Neverwhere (Illustrated) by Neil Gaiman
Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent. Over the years, various versions have been produced around the world. In 2016, this gorgeously illustrated edition of the novel was released in the UK.
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8pm, 13th Apr 2021 – A Girl is a Half Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride’s award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour.
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8pm, 11th May 2021 – The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other, exquisitely captured in Michele Hutchison’s translation.
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8pm, 8th Jun 2021 – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is…
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8pm, 13th Jul 2021 – The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M John Harrison
Shaw had a breakdown, but he’s getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor’s daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen. It’s not ideal, but it’s a life. Or it would be if…
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8pm, 10th Aug 2021 – A Oes Heddwas | Bloody Eisteddfod gan | by Myfanwy Alexander
Daf is a busy, conscientious and humane Police Inspector who knows his patch and does his best to protect and improve the lives of those who belong there and those who come in. In August 2015 the Welsh-speaking world did come to Meifod, near the small town of Llanfair Caereinion, and the author imagines what…
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