Blogs in May 2020

Brave Girl, Quiet Girl 22nd May 2020

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a gripping and emotional novel about friendship, motherhood, and the journey toward finding a place to call home. Brooke is a divorced single mom, financially strapped, living with her...

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After You’d Gone 22nd May 2020

AFTER YOU’D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O’Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief....

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Instructions for a Heatwave 22nd May 2020

It’s July 1976. In London, it hasn’t rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he’s going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn’t...

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The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon 21st May 2020

Florence Connelly is broken hearted. Her marriage has collapsed under the weight of the loss she shares with her husband, and her beloved grandmother has just died. Even the joy she found in dressmaking is gone. But things change...

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Yugoslavia, My Fatherland 20th May 2020

The story that unfolds in Vojnović’s hugely popular Slovenian novel is so gripping, that it is quite easy to forget your real surroundings. A Google search takes Vladan Borojević back to the catastrophic events of 1991, when he first...

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