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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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  • 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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  • 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 heartbreaking and dramatic tale

    I’ve had this book on my shelf for ages, and finally decided to pick it up on a whim because I liked the cover.

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  • A witty romp

    Who would have thought Virginia Woolf could be so funny? Orlando, her gender-bending tale of an Elizabethan man traversing centuries, is, frankly, hilarious.

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  • A beautiful heartbreak

    Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang’s writing is a love letter to South Korea. Her writing is majestic, poetic, and haunting. Human Acts is no different.

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  • A quick-witted coming-of-age story

    From the mammoth task of Great Circle, to the lovely little palate-cleanser of The Party by Tessa Hadley. This novella tells the story of two sisters, Moira and Evelyn, in post-War Bristol, and one night that changes everything.

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  • A gripping tale of passion and mystery

    My last book of 2024, and my first book of 2025, Great Circle was picked by my bookclub as our December / January read. It has a dual narrative; one, the life story of a young female aviator in the early 20th Century, and the other, the story of the actor who plays her decades…

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