Blogs in November 2022

The Whale Tattoo 14th November 2022

When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is back home. Having stormed out two...

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Saltwater 13th November 2022

Shortlisted for the Portico Prize. When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At...

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Stone Cold Trouble 9th November 2022

Set in the heart of West London’s Asian community, this is the latest instalment in the unmissable ZAQ & JAGS series . . . Trying – and failing – to keep his head down and to stay out of...

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The Walled Garden 9th November 2022

A luminous debut novel about love, the trauma of war and the miracle of human resilience, for readers of Anna Hope, Sadie Jones and Elizabeth Jane Howard. No one survives war unscathed. But even in the darkest days, seeds...

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Fairest Creatures 9th November 2022

Looks to Die For A serial killer’s dark obsession with the preservation of beauty sees him return to stalk the streets of Penzance, Cornwall in the summer of 2019. It’s 23 years since his first victims went missing, setting...

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