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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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  • 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 fractured but compelling read

    Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, For She is Wrath is a clever gender-flipping retelling of Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo.

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  • Audiobook round-up: January

    The first audiobook of the year was Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. The author of American Wife wrote Eligible a few years ago now, so it can be a little dated, but is basically a retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in modern-day Cincinnati.

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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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