Blogs in May 2023

The Bee Sting 8th May 2023

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking – a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart… ‘It’s a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your...

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Be Mine 8th May 2023

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is, here, once...

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Kairos 8th May 2023

Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened...

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The Late Americans 8th May 2023

In a university town in the American Midwest a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to work out what they want, and who they are As they test their own desires in...

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home 8th May 2023

‘America’s first lady of darkness and mirth.’ Guardian ‘The best American writer of her generation.’ Nick Hornby ‘Unmissable.’ Marie Claire From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore’s new novel is a magic box of...

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