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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

Type: Book
Date: 30 Jul 2020

Burnt Sugar

Sharp as a blade and laced with Avni Doshi’s caustic wit, this a story about love and betrayal. Not between lovers - between mother and daughter

Type: Book
Date: 04 Feb 2022

Light Perpetual

Francis Spufford’s ingenious and miraculously tender novel reimagines the lives of five London children killed in a rocket attack in World War Two

Type: Book
Date: 18 Feb 2021

A Town Called Solace

Mary Lawson explores the relationships of three people brought together by fate and the mistakes of the past in this gripping, darkly domestic tale

Type: Book
Date: 04 May 2021

Great Circle

The lives of a fearless female aviator and the actress who portrays her on screen decades later intersect in Maggie Shipstead’s vivid, soaring novel

Type: Book
Date: 14 May 2020

An Island

Karen Jennings’ gripping novel asks a question: to what lengths will a person go in order to ensure that what is theirs will not be taken from them?

Type: Book
Date: 25 Feb 2020

Apeirogon

How do we continue to live after the most precious thing is lost? Colum McCann’s tapestry of friendship, love, loss and belonging seeks the answer

Type: Book
Date: 01 Sep 2006

The Emperor’s Children

Claire Messud’s novel is an American classic – a sweeping portrait of one of the most fascinating cities in the world