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Review: Winterkill

12 Feb 2021

  It is very cold and dark in northern Iceland but Inspector Ari Thor is looking forward to a rare visit over the Easter weekend from his partner and young son who now live in Sweden. In the early hours he is shocked to be told the body of a young woman has been found in the street, and suddenly … Read more

Review: Love Is A Revolution

11 Feb 2021

  Set over the long summer holidays before Nala’s final year at High School, Love is a Revolution is a coming-of-age story with depth and resonance. Nala’s friends are inspiring community activists, who quote civil rights heroes and believe they can be the change they want to see in the world. All their clothes have slogans across the chest, and … Read more

Review: Light Perpetual

09 Feb 2021

  Francis Spufford’s entertaining romp of a first novel Golden Hill rightfully won him an armful of awards, and everyone was eager to see what would come next. Light Perpetual begins with the premise of a world altered, a ‘what if’ scenario where a V2 rocket would not hit a London Woolworths and instead the lives of five children within … Read more

Review: Brown Baby

08 Feb 2021

Nikesh Shukla is the editor of The Good Immigrant, several novels, screenplays and commentary on social issues. In these eleven chapters, Nikesh Shukla invites the reader into an intimate world of self-reflections written to his daughter on race, family and home. Penned in the style of a manual: How to talk to you about skin colour, How to talk to … Read more

Costa Book Of The Year 2020

26 Jan 2021

  Congratulations to Monique Roffey for winning the Costa Book Of The Year Award 2020! David, a lone Caribbean fisherman encounters a mermaid and is entranced. After she is brutally caught and about to be horribly exploited he rescues her and helps her recover. They fall in love and Aycayia begins to transform back to the young woman she was … Read more

Review: The Survivors

21 Jan 2021

  By now, Jane Harper has built quite a following with her previous novels such as her debut novel The Dry, which won all the awards going in 2017. Her ‘Outback Noir’ thrillers have firmly captured the imagination of UK readers and her latest is perhaps her best. In The Survivors, set in a coastal town in Tasmania, follows a young man … Read more

Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You? book cover

Reasons To Be Cheerful

13 Jan 2021

We’re ridiculously excited to hear the announcement that a new Sally Rooney novel has been announced for publication this Autumn. ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ (Hardback, £16.99) is due to be published on 7th September 2021, and centres around the relationship between two best friends nearing their thirties in different places and on very different trajectories. Whether you are a fan … Read more

Our favourite nature books

10 Dec 2020

Our Favourite Christmas Gift Books

30 Nov 2020