Blogs in January 2019

Live a Little 2nd January 2019

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children....

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Machines Like Me 2nd January 2019

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines...

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Adèle 2nd January 2019

Adèle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a flawless Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of ‘having it all’, she is bored – and consumed...

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Dream Sequence 2nd January 2019

Henry Banks, a brilliant but narcissistic young actor, is prepared to go to any length for a role, to capitalise on his successes in television drama by securing the lead in the latest film by a celebrated Spanish director....

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Race to Tibet 2nd January 2019

At a time when no Westerner has seen the holy city of Lhasa or met the Dalai Lama, French explorer Gabriel Bonvalot vows to do the impossible: he launches his own expedition to the Roof of the World with...

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