Book of the month

Book of the month

Mystery Book of the Month – Oct 2021

Published on Fri, 2021-10-01 13:30
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Umiko Wada has recently had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mother who seems to want her married again before his body is cold, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a Tokyo private detective, her life is pleasingly uncomplicated, filled with coffee runs, diary management and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case, dangerous enough to get him killed. A case which means Wada will have to leave Japan for the first time and travel to London.

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – Oct 2021

Published on Fri, 2021-10-01 13:25
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Benson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation... Funny and profound, Memorial is about family in all its strange forms, becoming who you're supposed to be and the outer limits of love.

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – Sept 2021

Published on Wed, 2021-09-01 17:43
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Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone shares the same values – or keeps their opinions to themselves. After being named ”the most homophobic town in the US”, a group of social activists arrive in the small town, and the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel.  

Noir Book of the Month – Sept 2021

Published on Wed, 2021-09-01 17:37
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A riveting tale of deception, vengeance, and power set against the haunting beauty of the Adirondack wilderness. ”…vibrant female characters refuse to turn themselves into commodities or victims. Suspenseful, witty, and wise, it is a compelling thriller”. – Susanna Moore

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – August 2021

Published on Thu, 2021-08-05 12:10
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Tracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumour, a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories – and who gets to tell them. This genre-defying novel is by turns a campus novel, psychological thriller, horror story and crime noir, each narrative frame stripping away the fictions we tell about women, men and the very nature of truth.

Mystery Book of the Month – August 2021

Published on Thu, 2021-08-05 12:06
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All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. In the 1930s, Grant McAllister, a mathematics professor turned author, worked them out, hiding their secrets in a book of crime stories. Then Grant disappeared… ’So, so clever. A twisty story and an education in the maths of murder mysteries, Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this one - bravo!’ – Sarah Pinborough

Mystery Book of the Month – July 2021

Published on Mon, 2021-07-05 15:05
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Eight strangers. One deadly invitation. Welcome to Raven Hall…  After years of abandonment, Raven Hall has been restored to its former glory. For one night only, it is playing host to an evening of murder mystery. The guests have gathered. The roles have been cast. But someone is playing a sinister game, one with devastating consequences. And as the guests are about to discover, the truth is much darker than fiction. Raven Hall is waiting for you… ”A page-turning gothic story with a big house – and a shocking family secret.” 

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – July 2021

Published on Mon, 2021-07-05 15:00
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Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Jude’s neighbour – younger, poorer, a kid from the kind of family everyone knows will come to no good. Jude is black and Cindy is white. One summer, Jude disappears. Search parties go out but come back empty-handed and strangely pleased. Jude thought she was better than everyone else. Look at her now. Meanwhile Cindy is performing a vanishing act of her own. She is slipping out of her old life and into someone else’s. She is becoming Jude... ”A richly atmospheric debut about lost innocence and rural America.”

Noir Book of the Month – June 2021

Published on Tue, 2021-06-01 14:23
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A harrowing story about racism and brutality that is more urgent now than ever. Set against the backdrop of the simmering racial tension produced by the LA Riots and the O.J. Simpson trial, comes this powerful hardboiled noir of violence and obsession. Pittsburgh, 1995. Twenty-two-year-old Bobby Saraceno is a biracial black man, passing for white. Bobby has hidden his identity from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who just returned from prison a newly radicalized white supremacist.

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – June 2021

Published on Tue, 2021-06-01 14:19
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In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the east coast of India, he is entranced by Chanda Devi's fierce nature and unusual gifts; speaking to trees and the ghosts of former colonialists. Prize-winning Indian bestseller.
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