Blogs in January 2021

My Phantoms 17th January 2021

From the novelist hailed as one of Britain’s best working authors (TLS) comes an end of life reckoning with a toxic mother-daughter bond, grief, and the damage done throughout the years. Helen Grant is a mystery to her two...

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Lean Fall Stand 17th January 2021

‘It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story’ Hilary Mantel So moving and delicate and terrifying and haunting’ Maggie O’Farrell The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times...

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Names of the Women 17th January 2021

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels. Names of the Women begins with Christ on the cross addressing Mary of...

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Painting Time 17th January 2021

In 2007, Paula Karst begins her studies at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. There she meets two friends, both enigmatic, resourceful, impulsive, and gifted. Together, the three weave a complex relationship that mirrors the interconnectedness of their...

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Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast 16th January 2021

A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors–in their fifties, and fraternal twins–own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like them, the “gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused,” can feel at home. Hector and Virgil think...

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