Books Editorial
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The Stranger Diaries
Elly Griffiths, Quercus - Clare Cassidy is an English teacher who has a love for Victorian ghost stories, an especial favourite being ‘The Stranger’, a chiller written by (the...
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Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far
Stormzy, Merky Books - The author of this book of recent pop history is billed as Stormzy, but it has mostly been pulled together by Jude Yawson. He’s a young writer who has s...
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The Story of Trojan Records
Laurence Cane-Honeysett - 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Trojan Records, a record label and real British success story. They played a key role in making reggae global...
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Geeolck Issue One
Barry Fox - I don’t usually go a bundle for self-published curios, but in this case I’m going to make an exception. As far as I can gather Barry Fox is a local fellow who make...
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French Exit
Patrick deWitt - The Canadian author Patrick deWitt scored a huge hit with his 2011 novel ‘The Sisters Brothers’ (which has just been made into a film) and ‘French Exit’, his ...
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Gentleman Jack
Angela Steidele - The story of Anne Lister’s life (1791-1840) may have slipped down the back of Time’s settee if it were not for a remarkable series of extensive diaries she k...
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The House on Vesper Sands
Pariah O’Donnell - The second novel from this Irish author begins with a deliciously dark chapter. We’re in Victorian London and a young seamstress arrives at a grand house in...
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Love is Blind
William Boyd - Towards the back end of the 19thcentury Brodie Moncur is working as a piano-tuner in Edinburgh. The firm he is working for have a piano showroom in Paris, but b...
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Pearl and other stories
Julia Darling - The novelist, poet and playwright Julia Darling was born in Winchester but moved to Newcastle in 1980. Her first novel ‘Crocodile Soup’ was long-listed for the...
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Middle England
Jonathan Coe - Jonathan Coe eviscerated Thatcherism in his 1994 satire ‘What a Carve Up!’ but for his latest novel he’s turned his hand to a rather trickier task: trying to ma...
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The Corset
Laura Purcell - Laura Purcell struck gothic gold with her debut novel ‘The Silent Companions’ and she’s also on fine form with her latest. Set in the mid-19thcentury she juggl...
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Paris Echo
Sebastian Faulks - Disaffected Moroccan teenager Tariq lives with his father and stepmother in Tangier. He decides to run away with the vague notion of tracing the roots of hi...
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That Summer Feeling
Mark Hopkinson - “I like books that ramble on, that are like someone talking to you or you’re hearing thoughts. When I meet someone or just see them around I always think: wha...
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