February 2018

Misery [suggested by Wendy Gibson] Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her – with relief, with joy. […]

January 2018

Alone Together [suggested by Uzma Ali] Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the […]

December 2017

Half of a Yellow Sun [suggested by Simon Henshall] Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern […]

November 2017

My Autobiography [suggested by Clare Freeman] Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin’s father died of drink while his mother, unable […]

October 2017

East West Street [suggested by Ross Allatt] When he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city […]

September 2017

Ablutions [suggested by Phil Howarth] A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book […]

August 2017

The Fortress of Solitude [suggested by John Beresford] This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. […]

July 2017

A Visit From The Goon Squad [suggested by Frances de Navarro] Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie […]

June 2017

e Light Between Oceans [suggested by Wendy Gibson] After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to […]

May 2017

The Body in the Library [suggested by Uzma Ali] It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the […]