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This is Hession’s second novel after the incredible, and now BBC adapted, Leonard and Hungry Paul. Here we follow the titular Panenka …
Welcome to Orrun, a world ruled by the Emperor and guided by a zodiac of God-like powers: Dragon, Bear, Monkey, Fox, Ox, …
Winner of the 2017 Booker Prize, Lincoln in the Bardo is a story of loss and acceptance, or grief and understanding. Is …
Seascraper was longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and, alongside Universality, was one of the shorter works on offer. Since then, this …
Sometimes books find you at the right place and time. It’s that time of year where the hustle and bustle has peaked …
Build a world that fits all the people in it. That was Robin Ince’s rallying cry when I went to see him …
Booka in Oswestry has to be up there as one of my top five bookshops. Everything it does it has done well, …
The Abundance by Amit Majmudar, first published in 2013, is a lovingly bittersweet story of first generation immigrant parents living in the …
Twenty years in preparation Hall brings us a story of Helm, the only named wind in the UK. Naturally, this prompts the …
In publishing it has been a year for highlighting the importance of rivers and water, from Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive? …
It’s great to find this aperitif sized delicacy in the library. A short story of approximately 50 pages So Late in the …
‘The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite’ Piranesi is the second novel from Susanna Clarke following Jonathan Strange & …
We are well and truly into the 2025 Booker Prize season. What better way to recognise the literary quality that this prize …
Walking up the hill through Ambleside, you’ll see the sign you’ve been looking for, Fred’s Bookshop, at the top of the high …
It is perhaps worth mentioning that I started writing this review on the 4th of July, American Independence Day; a day when …
My Name Is Lucy Barton is Elizabeth Strout’s fifth novel, and the first of the Lucy Barton collection. Published in 2016, it …
You can tell from the moment you see Commonwealth Books that it has character: situated next to Boston’s oldest street and opening …
She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan is an epic tale of turning tragedy into power, how the pain of the …
The Trees was first published in 2021 and subsequently shortlisted for 2022’s Booker Prize as well as winning the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse …