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• Orchid Child by @VCostelloAuthor

  Kate is a neuroscientist who covets logic and order, unless she's sleeping with her married lab director, and then logic goes out the window. So does her orderl... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• That Beauty in the Trees by Ron Smith

  Moving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith's new volume responds with a range of emotions from humour to horror and with a variety of form... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lowborn by @ThatKerryHudson

  What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns 'When every... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Places In Between by @RoryStewartUK

  Caught between hostile nations, warring factions, and competing ideologies, at the time Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirel... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by @DeeshaPhilyaw

  There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who nurses a crush on the preacher's wife; the mother who bakes a sublime peach cobbler every Monday for her date with the... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson

  Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer,... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #DearNeighbour by @jane_bradley

  Alice is a working hard to provide for her daughter, Mollie. But it's a challenge juggling her job alongside her duties as a single Mum in Leeds: a city she... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #FlareCorona by @RedmondPoetry

  

  Against a constellation of solar weather events and evolving pandemic, Jeannine Hall Gailey's Flare, Corona paints a self-portrait of the layered ways that we... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Tiger Mom’s Tale by @lynliaobutler

  Lexa Thomas has never quite fit in. Having grown up in a family of blondes while more closely resembling Constance Wu, she's neither white enough nor Asian... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Winterfell Stone by Susanna Scott

  A mystical Standing Stone from the dawn of time. An art teacher who has taken a year off to find peace in the Yorkshire Dales. A frumpy librarian looking for th... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Tattoo Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

  Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals her full-body snake tattoo to rapturous applause. Days later she is... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis

  

  It begins in a bar, like so many strange stories. The gods Hermes and Apollo argue about what would happen if animals had human intelligence, so they make a... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrère

  Little Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Strange Bird by @jeffvandermeer

  The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature - she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #TheTwilightGarden by @saranishaadams

  In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. Once a sanctuary for people when they... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Komodo by @jeffvandermeer

  An incendiary speculative fiction novelette from the NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy. Meet your cast of characters: Angels and ghost... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Strange Meeting by @susanhillwriter

  John Hilliard, a young subaltern returning to the Western Front after a brief period of sick leave back in England blind to the horrors of the trenches, finds... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver

  Maeve has everything. A high-powered job, a beautiful home, and a string of uncomplicated one-night encounters. She's also an addict - a functioning alcoholic... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Impossible Truths of Love by @hannahbeckerman

  When Nell's father makes a deathbed declaration that hints at a long-held secret, it reignites feelings of isolation that have plagued her for years. Her... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Like a House on Fire by Lauren McBrayer

  After twelve years of marriage and two kids, Merit has begun to feel like a stranger in her own life. She loves her husband and sons, but she desperately needs... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE