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Type: Book
Date: 06 May 2021

China Room

Punjab, 1929: a bride marries a man she is not allowed to see. Curiosity grows, with far-reaching consequences in Sunjeev Sahota’s absorbing novel

Type: Book
Date: 02 Aug 2018

Washington Black

Esi Edugyan relates the astonishing adventures of Washington Black, whose escape from the brutal cane plantations of Barbados was only the beginning

Type: Book
Date: 30 Jul 2020

Real Life

Brandon Taylor’s deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire and overcoming pain, which deftly zooms in and out of focus

Type: Book
Date: 07 Jan 2020

Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid explores the awkwardness of transactional relationships and the consequences of doing the right thing for the wrong reason

Type: Book
Date: 21 Sep 2021

Bewilderment

An astrobiologist thinks of a creative way to help his rare and troubled son in Richard Powers’ deeply moving and brilliantly original novel

Type: Book
Date: 16 Jan 2020

This Mournable Body

Tsitsi Dangarembga’s searing novel about the obstacles faced by the women of Zimbabwe asks one question: where do lives go when all hope has departed?

Type: Book
Date: 15 Jul 2021

A Passage North

Anuk Arudpragasam's masterful novel is an attempt to come to terms with life in the wake of the devastation of Sri Lanka's 30-year civil war

Type: Book
Date: 16 Feb 2021

No One Is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood’s sincere and delightfully profane love letter to the infinite scroll, and a meditation on love, language and human connection

Type: Book
Date: 13 Aug 2020

The New Wilderness

Diane Cook’s extraordinary novel is both a blazing lament for our contempt of nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood

Type: Book
Date: 06 Feb 2020

Love and Other Thought Experiments

Sophie Ward weaves a beguiling web of fable and fiction, fate and folly, fact and philosophy, over ten interconnecting but self-contained chapters