Tag: Fiction
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9th December 2025 – Murder Under the Mistletoe by The Reverend Richard Coles
It’s that time of year again… Gaudy jumpers and garish paper enwrap us and our Secret Santa gifts at the annual Christmas get together. The rules are simple: Then, on the night, we’ll pop all the gifts in Santa’s sack. Everyone gets to pick a great new read. We’ll review those in the January 2026…
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12th November 2024 – Drift by Caryl Lewis
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM THREE-TIME WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR CARYL LEWIS: A STORY OF LOVE, MAGIC AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SEA. Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery cove. Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker,…
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8th October 2024 – Kindred by Octavia Butler
‘The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by’ GUARDIAN ‘One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had’ JUNOT DIAZ —In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer.In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he’s drowning.…
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13th August 2024 – When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando
A powerful coming-of-age story about chance encounters, injustice and how the choices that we make can completely change our future – the second YA novel from multi-award-winning Danielle Jawando. ‘Jawando’s writing is incredibly raw and real; I felt completely immersed’ Alice Oseman When fourteen-year-old Shaq is stabbed outside of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, three teenagers…
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9th July 2024 – Marple: 12 Stories
A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective…
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11th June 2024 – Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Mark Dunn’s book, Ella Minnow Pea, pushes literary conventions. Nevin Nollop left the islanders of Nollop with the treasured legacy of his pangram the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. But as the letters begin to crumble on the monumental inscription, the island’s council forbids the use of the lost letters and silence…
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9th April 2024 – The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas
The Salpêtrière asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the truth is much more complicated – for these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives or strong-willed daughters. Once a year a grand…
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12th March 2024 – Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
“Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked…” To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents don’t approve of…
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13th Feb 2024 – Under The Net by Iris Murdoch
‘This is real life, Jake,’ she said. ‘You’d better wake up.’ Jake is clever, lazy and scraping by in London as a hack translator. Jake loves Anna. Anna is an elusive and lovely singer. Anna loves Hugo. Hugo is a fireworks manufacturer turned movie producer and majestic philosopher. Hugo loves Sadie. Sadie is a glossy…
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9th Jan 2024 – Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE 2021 and SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder…
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12th Dec 2023 – Christmas Is Murder by Val McDermid
A collection of atmospheric short stories from the international bestseller Val McDermid. She is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are in full force in Christmas is Murder, a festive collection of chilling tales. From an irresponsible baron whose body is discovered beneath a silver birch tree, to a classic detective…
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14th Nov 2023 – My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
**Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022** A Book of the Year in the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the White Review, the Evening Standard, the Big Issue, the TLS, the Week and the New Statesman. Helen Grant has always been a mystery to her daughter. Twice-divorced, with few friends, her…
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