Blogs in April 2014

The House at the end of Hope Street 3rd April 2014

In true magical realism this book follows the lives of different women over a period of 99 days at various stages and ages of their lives. Alba finds herself entering the house after her life implodes and it is...

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The Sense of an Ending 1st January 1970

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others,...

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Engleby 1st January 1970

Mike Engleby has a secret… This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university. But with the disappearance of Jennifer, the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the story turns...

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Case Histories 1st January 1970

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet – Lost on the left, Found on the right – and the two never seem...

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Porterhouse Blue 1st January 1970

Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cache it confers on the athletic sons of country families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master,...

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