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LATEST ARTICLES ( 4138 )

• The Record Keeper by @AgnesGomillion

  

  After World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce. Everyone must obey the law-in every way-or risk shattering the... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by @Marc_Levy

  Alice Pendelbury believes everything in her life is pretty much in order-from her good friends to her burgeoning career. But even Alice has to admit it's been a... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Along The Broken Bay by Flora J. Solomon

  December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Testament of Loki by @Joannechocolat

  

  Ragnarok was the End of Worlds. Asgard fell, centuries ago, and the old gods have been defeated. Some are dead, while others have been consigned to eternal... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Dear Fahrenheit 451 by @annieaupence

  

  Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Or wanted to give a piece of your mind to the 'must-read' book that you wis... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Property by Lionel Shriver

  First ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver This landmark publication, the first collection of stories from a master of the form, explores th... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Heartaches by Donovan Lord

  An autobiographical poetry and art book, heartaches' poems are as universal as they are personal. The poems are conceived as flashpoints of heartaches that... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• This Is Not A Love Story by @SukiFleet

  

  When fifteen-year-old Romeo's mother leaves one day and doesn't return, he finds himself homeless and trying to survive on the streets. Mute and terrified, his... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Making of a Massacre by @gingerthomp1

  In March 2011, gunmen from one of the most violent drug trafficking cartels in the world swept through a small Mexican border town, leaving behind dozens of... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

  

  San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lyra’s Oxford by @PhilipPullman

  This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What Were You Thinking? by @NPRDina

  Parents, or 12-24 year old selves; this intrepidly reported, six-part audio show hosted by NPR journalist Dina Temple-Raston, discover the new science that... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Once Upon a Time in the North by @PhilipPullman

  When Lyra is studying at Oxford University, she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson's first meeting, many years ago, along with much... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

  When 19-year old Nicholas Nickleby is left destitute after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• There Are Things I Know by Karen B. Golightly

  

  Eight-year-old Pepper sees the world a little differently from most people. One day, during a school field trip, Pepper is kidnapped by a stranger and driven... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Winter Folly by @MissLuluTaylor

  

  The darker the lie, the deeper the secret . . . In this house there are many secrets... It is 1965 and young Alexandra Crewe obediently marries the man her... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

  

  The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, i... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems by Ruth Stone

  Finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, this retrospective of Ruth Stone's poetry combines the best work from twelve previous volumes with an abundance of new... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Spring by Ali Smith

  What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Moon Over Soho by @Ben_Aaronovitch

  The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE