Hell Is Empty: It is not essential for a reader to have read all of Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache novels, but it would help, if only to understand the strong…
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How To Be White: Racial tensions just never ease off in the US, and writers have to find new stories to tell, to draw readers into the many aspects of…
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In The Mood For Love: Bernard Slade’s 1975 play Same Time Next Year (also filmed in 1978) must be one of the most popular two-handers of all time. The sweet…
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Hope And Glory: Racism, sexism and class come to a boil in the small West Texas town of Odessa, where Elizabeth Wetmore’s powerful debut novel Valentine is set. The year…
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And All Falls Down: Emily St. John Mandel follows up her powerful novel, Station Eleven, about a global pandemic (sci-fi is turning out to be true) with The Glass Hotel,…
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Only The Lonely: Anne Tyler’s last two books, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance were mildly disappointing, but she is back to her A Spool Of Blue Thread form with…
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Mystery Of The Missing Girls: The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James moves between dual time frames as two intrepid young women set out find out just what is going…
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The Count Of Hotel Metropol: If a book remains on the bestseller charts for so long, it demands to be read. And after completing Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow…
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Dead Man Walking: James McBride’s new novel, Deacon King Kong, set in a crumbling Brooklyn housing project in the late sixties, wraps up the history of immigrant and black lives…
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The Name’s IQ: Isaiah Quintabe, better known as IQ, is an unlicensed private eye and the hero of Joe Ide’s crime series, the fourth of which, a hugely entertaining Hi…