February 2020
Three Daughters of Eve [suggested by Isobel Cumbers] Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three […]
Three Daughters of Eve [suggested by Isobel Cumbers] Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three […]
Wakenhyrst [suggested by Wendy Gibson] In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting […]
Midwinter Break Chosen by Wendy Gibson] Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is […]
Girl, Woman, Other (Chosen by Wendy Gibson) Teeming with life and crackling with energy – a love song to modern […]
The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker Here is the story of the Iliad as we&;ve never heard it before: in […]
Strangers on a Train [suggested by Phil Howarth] The psychologists would call it folie a deux… ‘Bruno slammed his palms […]
An American Marriage [suggested by Helen Close] Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is […]
Homegoing [suggested by Harriet Holder] Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one […]
The Night Watch [suggested by Frances de Navarro] Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit […]
The Dinner [suggested by Isobel Cumbers] A summer’s evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between […]