Heart And Soul: Chris Whitaker’s We Begin At The End has been listed among the best thrillers of 2020, but to label it a thriller is to do it an…
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Plum Pudding: When things look grim outside (a pandemic will invariably cause a few lows), a Janet Evanovich book is just the right pick-me-up. The bestselling author has created one…
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An American In Ardnakelty: Tana French’s new novel, The Searcher, is not as complex as her last book,The Witch Elm, but it has more emotional heft, plus the kind of…
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Lethal Strike: Readers of thrillers expect a fast pace, shootouts, chases, bloodshed, fancy gizmos and all the chaos of crime solving. What they don’t expect– and more often than not,…
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The Miracle Of Kindness: After the international success of A Man Called Ove, Swedish writer Fredrik Backman’s books have followed the template of telling deeply moving stories with kindness at…
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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,…