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• #TheGirlfromBerlin by @KateHewitt1

  

  "I want to be free," Rosa said quietly. "Even if just for a few minutes. It might be all I have." Berlin, 1936: From her beautiful new home Liesel Scholz ... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• February 2021 Round-Up on the Book Lover’s Boudoir

  

  I read 63 books this month. February factoids: How Much I Read / Listened 18,670 pages read Burned through 18 hours 32 minutes of audio I read six titles... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan

  

  Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Beach Hut by @cassandrajaneuk

  

  It is autumn time and on a peaceful Cornish beach, Finn and his sister Ava defy planning regulations and achieve a childhood dream when they build themselves... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #TheSearchingDead by @ramseycampbell1

  

  1952. On a school trip to France teenager Dominic Sheldrake begins to suspect his teacher Christian Noble has reasons to be there as secret as they're strange.... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #DragonflyGirl by @MartiLeimbach

  

  Things aren't going well for Kira. At home, she cares for her mother and fends off debt collectors. At school, she's awkward and shy. Plus, she may flunk out... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What Are You After by @And_OtherPoems

  Josephine Corcoran's inventive and unflinching debut poetry collection asks us to consider what it is we are really here for. Bold and unsentimental, her... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #WhentheWorldStoodStill by @eastham_kate

  

  All through the war, the nurses of St Marylebone Infirmary have stood strong, but they're about to be tested as never before when a deadly flu sweeps the... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #TheApparitionPhase by Will Maclean

  

  Tim and Abi have always been different from their peers. Precociously bright, they spend their evenings in their parents' attic discussing the macabre and... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The House on the Hill by @IrinaShapiro2

  Still grieving the death of her husband, Lauren leaves the hubbub of Boston for the peaceful shores of Cape Cod, where she hopes to come to terms with her loss... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Niceville by @CarstenStroud

  Something is wrong in Niceville. A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Other (You): Stories by @JoyceCarolOates

  

  A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story. In this stirring, reflective... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Our House by @louise_candlish

  

  On a bright morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they've just bought on Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it's your... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #TheDouble by @GosslinAnn

  

  Following a violent outburst at an awards ceremony, Vidor Kiraly, a prize-winning neuroscientist and Cambridge don, is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Things Fall Apart by @TheRealCAchebe

  

  A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wain @smaychel

  Wain is a collection of LGBT themed poetry for teens based on retellings of Scottish myths. The collection contains stories about kelpies, selkies, and the... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #TheBlame by @kerrywk

  

  Paige, Richard and me. We thought we'd be friends forever. But everything changed the day we took the short cut home from school along the old railway line. I... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #KillingTheGirl by @wickedwriteruk

  

  For over forty years Carol Cage has been living as a recluse in her mansion, Oaktree House. Fear is her constant companion. She's been keeping a secret - and... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #TheMotherFault by @katemildenhall

  In suburban Australia, Mim and her two children live as quietly as they can. Around them, a near-future world is descending into chaos: government officials hav... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #TheSilentSuspect by @Writer_Nell

  By the time sign language interpreter Paige Northwood arrives, flames have engulfed her client's home. Though Lukas is safe, his wife is still inside. But she... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE