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How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
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How to Build a Boat

With tenderness and verve, Elaine Feeney tells the story of how one boy on a unique mission transforms the lives of his teachers, and brings together a community
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
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If I Survive You

An exhilarating novel-in-stories that pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
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Study for Obedience

In her accomplished and unsettling second novel, Sarah Bernstein explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
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Old God's Time

In his beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite what it seems, Sebastian Barry explores what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us
A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
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A Spell of Good Things

A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
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An extract from Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark

A would-be novelist takes inspiration from life – but then finds the tables are mysteriously turned, in Muriel Spark’s entertaining literary joyride. Read an extract from our August Book of the Month here