Books Editorial
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Sunburn
Laura Lippman - After a day at the beach with her husband and young child Polly surreptitiously up sticks, leaving them both behind, to disappear somewhere non-descript. She w...
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Let Go My Hand
Edward Docx - There’s a quote from author Paul Murray (“Tremendously moving, fiercely intelligent and very, very funny”) on the back of Edward Docx’s latest – which is just ou...
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Forever Words: The Unknown Poems
Johnny Cash - “We’re in the church-house kneeling down / We’re in the subways underground / We’re in the bars and on the street / We drive a truck, we walk a beat / We’re in t...
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I Am Not A Number
Alex Cox - It was the American comedian Ernie Kovacs who said: “Television is a medium, so called because it’s neither rare nor well done.” True enough, but a TV series that c...
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Righteous: An IQ Novel
Joe Ide - IQ is Isaiah Quintabe, a twenty-something problem solver/investigator from South Central LA, who first came to light in the novel IQ, which saw him embroiled in a hi...
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The Woman in the Window
AJ Finn - 38 year-old Anna Fox lives alone in her house in New York City. She is estranged from her family and her agoraphobia has made her something of a recluse. She spends ...
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Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff - Set during the Jim Crow era in the US (when segregation between black and white people was being enforced) Matt Ruff’s novel begins in 1954 with African American s...
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The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Imogen Hermes Gowar - This promising debut novel takes us back to London circa 1785 when Jonah Hancock, a merchant, loses a ship but acquires what he believes is a mermaid (de...
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Grandville: Force Majeure
Bryan Talbot - The fifth, and final, volume of Bryan Talbot’s steampunk/alternative reality/detective/all-animal series of graphic novels had me at the first page. Well, even ...
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The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell - If you’re still on the hunt for a nice and spooky winter tale, then step right up. The Silent Companions opens in 1866 when we first meet Elsie Bainbridge insi...
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Lullaby
Leila Sliming - This French novel has already won the Prix Goncourt Prize (awarded to the author of the best and most imaginative prose work of the year) and has now been tran...
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Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz - Anthony Horowitz is the creator of Midsomer Murders, and has previously pastiched Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming to winning effect, and for his latest n...
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Places in the Darkness
Chris Brookmyre - Chris Brookmyre is best known for his hard-boiled crime stories set in his native Scotland, but here he’s reached into some future period for a tale set on C...
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