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8pm, 14th Sep 2021 – Black and British: A short, essential history by David Olusoga
A short, essential introduction to Black British history by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga.
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8pm, 12th Oct 2021 – Poor by Caleb Femi
What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because ‘you fit the description of a man’ – and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of…
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8pm, 9th Nov 2021 – The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II when women’s stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . . . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards…
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8pm, 14th Dec 2021 – The Mistletoe Murder by P.D. James
Playful and ingenious, shot through with narrative elegance and sly humor, The Mistletoe Murder is a treat for P. D. James’s legions of fans—and anyone who enjoys the pleasures of a masterfully wrought whodunit.
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8pm, 8th Dec 2020 – A Boy Called Christmas Book by Matt Haig
A Boy Called Christmas is a tale of adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves, more snow, and a boy called Nikolas, who isn’t afraid to believe in magic.
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8pm, 10th Nov 2020 – The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth, a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice – a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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8pm, 13th Oct 2020 – My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
This is Lemn’s story: a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph.
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8pm, 8th Sept 2020 – Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Fleishman Is in Trouble is a 2019 novel by American writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner. The debut novel was published on 18 June 2019 by Penguin Random House. It tells the story of a Manhattan couple undergoing a bitter divorce.
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8pm, 11th August 2020 – A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which finally reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole’s suicide.
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8pm, 14th July 2020 – My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante is an Italian novelist who was born in or near Naples. She seems once to have been married; she may have lived in Greece; she appears to be a mother. Or so we think. In our self-promoting, Twitter-saturated age, Ferrante is an outlier, an author who wishes to remain totally private. She refuses face-to-face interviews,…
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8pm, 9th June 2002 – In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
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8pm, 12th May 2020 – My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach….
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