A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is set entirely and exclusively in a hotel. But before you conclude that…
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One read of the back cover blurb of Gail Honeyman’s debut novel , Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and I…
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I liked the synopsis of Small Pleasures so much I bought the book twice. Naturally, that was an oversight, which…
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I bought Mayflies because the synopsis sounded like there may be similarities to Jack’s first novel which is currently at…
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Maggie Shipstead’s novel Great Circle, was the first to land in my basket, followed by The Age of Innocence by…
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Not for the first time, I have to thank the staff at the Taunton branch of Waterstones for recommending Still…
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I had just finished reading ‘The Passenger’ by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, a novel first published in 1938, which told one…
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‘Between life and death there is a library,’ she said. ‘And within that library, the shelves go on for…
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Set in the deprived Glasgow of the 1980s, 2020 Booker Prize Winner Shuggie Bain is a deeply personal account of…
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One of the few silver linings of this pandemic pandemonium has been the additional free time it has brought. Despite…
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