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JULY A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau | Fiction | PB | £9.99 | 7 July Compellingly told in a series of first-person narratives, A Wreath for the Enemy […]

Jenni Fletcher joins us on the blog to talk about her new book, Cinderella’s Deal With The Colonel. She also reveals more about the start of the writing process, […]

A book of treasures. A wealth of secrets.The Keepsake is a thrilling dual-time novel, with a fascinating, complex woman at its heart, wealth of twists, […]

The cartoonist’s singular book, 14 years in the making, imbues the tale of a harried 1970s B-movie editor with panoramic scope Enter the Faber/Observer/Comica g […]

This fabulously detailed account of the great collector’s treasures, artist friends and the Cambridge art gallery home he built with his wife, Helen, is a f […]

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Like the Costa prizes, scrapped in 2022, the Neros will cover children’s books, nonfiction and novels, emphasising ‘commercial’ titlesCaffè Nero is launch […]

Surrey moved 25 points clear at the top after a ten-wicket win over neighbours Kent at The Oval inside three days. The away side was asked to bat first and […]

Far from being the preserve of weirdos, fandoms offer a model of community and wellbeingOf the many films that dramatise the deranged behaviour of celebrity fans, […]

THEY SAY IT’S A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND . . . HATE AT FIRST SIGHT.

Kate hates feeling out of control. Her incessant need to overprepare has al […]

Today on the blog we’re joined by Melanie Hamrick, debut author of First Position, which is published by Mills & Boon on 22 June 2023! First Position follows Syl […]

A cautionary Bulgarian tale of nostalgia, an anarchic story set in South Korea and novels exploring motherhood are among this year’s contenders. But it’s hard to […]

He saw the world’s cruel absurdities through a comic lens, writes Boyd, who recalls his very first meeting with Amis – and explains why his unmistakable voice wil […]

A professor of law who’s a computer geek carves an undaunted path through the conceptual and technical undergrowth in this illuminating tour of cyberspace’s dar […]

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The Suede bassist’s second novel, a grimy tale of two young urchins in 17th-century London, is a florid but riveting readIf one tends to approach the side p […]

Is it too early to start thinking about June reading goals??? Probably not. I am thinking that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to use RANDOM.ORG to do random reads from […]

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The journalist uses her own history of accommodation to illuminate the trials of social housing, renting and buying in this thoughtful, timely study of the current […]

Open letter condemning the detention of the human rights activist, who won the 2022 prize, signed by more than 100 laureates including Kazuo Ishiguro and JM […]

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Lying in the Deep. Diana Urban. 2023. 384 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: I didn’t realize there’d be this much blood.Premise/plot: Lying in the Deep is […]