Blogs in August 2022

The Rabbit Hutch 26th August 2022

Blandine isn’t like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents—neighbours, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex...

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Less is Lost 25th August 2022

Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good. For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an...

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The Secrets We Hide 24th August 2022

The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife Hana in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition...

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The Daughters of Madurai 24th August 2022

‘A girl is a burden. A girl is a curse.’ Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can’t produce a son – or worse, bears daughters. They let her...

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All The Broken Places 24th August 2022

From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable,...

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