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Project F. Jeanne DuPrau. 2023. [October 10] 224 pages. [Source: Review copy]First sentence: All was going well in our country at the time this story begins, which […]

From John Steinbeck to Tommy Orange, it’s an old story that keeps on going, in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth. These books help explain whyFor all its w […]

Tom Hanks’s underwhelming account of a Hollywood film production is a bland busman’s holiday‘I make movies because no other labour satisfies my quest to captu […]

A teenage love story develops into an affecting meditation on the migrant experience in the follow-up to Open WaterPeckham, a district of south-east London […]

A woman’s quest to uncover her family’s difficult past reveals broader truths about the present conflictIn 2014, Victoria Belim came across a strange entry in her […]

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The Choice. Gillian McAllister. 2020/2017. 368 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: It starts with a selfie. He is a random; we are not even sure of his name. […]

Girl Forgotten. April Henry. 2023. [March] 264 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Maybe after dark, this older section of the cemetery, with its crumbling […]

When I began to write Empress Matilda’s story I wondered if anybody even knew who this twelfth century princess was. Most have heard of the conflicts between C […]

Murtagh Still a Lethal Weapon
 
There were only two matches in the First Division and both were completed inside three days. At Edgbaston, Surrey chose to field […]

Rose Tremain and JJ Bola become the latest novelists to turn their hands to writing for young children with tales about a magical metal bird and a boy overcoming […]

This engrossing history explains why the extraordinary – and tiny – paintings of Adam Elsheimer, who died in poverty in 1610 aged only 32, were revolutionaryAt the […]

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A Sky Full of Song. Susan Lynn Meyer. 2023. [April] 272 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: At first, they only threw tomatoes. Then it was rocks. Soon you […]

From Lady Chatterley’s Lover to novels about trans children, attempts to suppress works of literature tend to have the opposite effectThe 17th century rector of S […]

Queen Bee. Amalie Howard. 2023. 368 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Wincing at the ache in my ribs–I could have sworn I’d heard one of them creak–I […]

A sharp and lucid case for gaining wisdom through adversity rather than booksIf aught can teach us aught, Affliction’s looks,
Making us look into ourselves so nea […]

The actor’s tale about the creation of a fantasy film captures the humdrum of Hollywood but lacks his on-screen ability to breathe life into charactersThere is p […]

Daniel Rachel imagines what the next Beatles album might have been like, with painstaking detail and great storiesFor a baby boomer like me, 12 years old when the […]

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The bond between a terminally ill woman and an oddball charity worker makes for a promising, pleasingly complex debutWhen it comes to piecing together a narrative, […]

A fourth-century man finds himself alone and adrift in Britain in the last days of empire in a brutal, wonderful novelJames Hynes is not well known in the UK – Spar […]