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My Other Husband by Dorothy Koomson, dual timeline novel set in Brighton, London and Leeds. #fromourbookshelves Cleo is a successful novelist and now she is screen writing, adapting her books for TV. She is clearly a principled woman because...
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga, novel set in New York and Albania. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 In a recent review in the Sunday Times Books section (17 August 2025), reviewer Laura Hackett initially found the blurb a little...
A Northern Light in Provence by Elizabeth Birkelund – a novel around translation set in Greenland and Provence. Ilse Erlund is in her mid 30s. She lives in a dilapidated house on a cliff top in Greenland. It is...
Flesh by Davi Szalay, novel set in London, Hertfordshire and Hungary. WINNER of the Booker Prize 2025 I chose this book because I heard the panel on Front Row on BBC Radio 4 unanimously extolling its virtues, its...
The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead, a Golden Age locked room mystery set on the Essex coast. The House at Devil’s Neck is a Golden Age mystery with a difference. It is brand new, written by Golden...
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