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  • Gothic folk horror

    want to start by saying this is hands-down one of my favourite reads of the year so far. Lost in the Garden is a gothic folk horror that was shortlisted for the Nero Prize, and I absolutely loved it!

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  • A brutal kaleidoscope of emotions

    actually picked up The Women initially thinking that it was a dystopian novel, but was pleasantly surprised to discover it’s historical.

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  • Audiobook round-up: March

    I started my month off with Lessons by Ian McEwan. This tells the life story of Roland, and the lessons he learns along the way.

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  • An astonishing true story

    Deftly plotted, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride tells the story of Jewish and African American communities coming together in 1920s and 1930s Pennsylvania.

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  • A literary whodunnit

    Deftly plotted, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride tells the story of Jewish and African American communities coming together in 1920s and 1930s Pennsylvania.

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  • A spooky what-if

    Imagine you live in a valley. A valley that looks like the valley to the east and the valley to the west. But imagine that if you were to go one way, you would step 20 years into the future, and the other way, 20 years into the past.

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  • Audiobook round-up: February

    I started my month off with Lessons by Ian McEwan. This tells the life story of Roland, and the lessons he learns along the way.

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  • An exquisite heartbreak

    Imagine you’re a 7-year-old child and you are abducted by your father. Well, that’s what happens to Lilia. Lilia has been on the run her whole life, but when she comes across Eli, things start to change.

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  • A swashbuckling adventure

    Fans of The Princess Bride will love Tress of the Emerald Sea! Our February bookclub pick, this swashbuckling adventure tells the story of Tress as she goes to save the love of her life.

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  • A deeply philosophical story

    I’d heard of Roland Barthes before, but I had very little idea of his philosophy and works. A Lover’s Discourse, vaguely aligned to Barthes’ work of the same name, tells the story of a Chinese woman in London post-Brexit

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