THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY by Dean Koontz

THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (brilliancepublishing.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Alida is a “human oddity”, what many might call a freak. For the first seventeen years of her life, she is the property of Captain Forest Farnam, the star attraction in his “Museum of the […]

TO SAVE THE MAN by John Sayles

TO SAVE THE MAN John Sayles (johnsaylesblog.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In September 1890 Antoine LaMere – son of an Ojibwe mother and a French father – boards the eastbound train. His destination is Captain Richard Henry Pratt’s Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, a military-style academy whose […]

QUINT by Robert Lautner

QUINT Robert Lautner (robert-lautner.com) The Borough Press (boroughpress.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Before he fished for shark off Massachussetts’ Amity Island, Quint was a boat for hire on Florida’s Merritt Island, taking daytrippers and too-rich college boys out sea-fishing; before that, he was in the US Navy, stationed on the USS […]

JAMES by Percival Everett

JAMES Percival Everett Mantle (panmacmillan.com) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In mid-19th century Missouri, Jim is a slave owned by Miss Watson, a man who often finds himself the butt of the jokes of local boys Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. When Jim hears a rumour that he is to be […]

THE CARTOON LIFE AND LOVES OF A STUPID MAN by Marc Joan

THE CARTOON LIFE AND LOVES OF A STUPID MAN Marc Joan (marc-joan.com) Deixis Press (deixis.press) £13.50 Philippe Favrier is a Frenchman living in Geneva with his beautiful wife, Marilyne. Philippe owns a comic book shop – La Market Jaune – and is heir to a pharmaceutical fortune. Marilyne is a heart surgeon who works, to […]

THE LATECOMER by Jean Hanff Korelitz

THE LATECOMER Jean Hanff Korelitz (jeanhanffkorelitz.com) Faber & Faber (faber.co.uk) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The Oppenheimer triplets…had been in full flight from one another as far back as their ancestral petri dish. Not one of the three – Harrison (the smart one), Lewyn (the weird one), or Sally (the girl) […]

DEEP WATER by Emma Bamford

DEEP WATER Emma Bamford Simon & Schuster (simonandschuster.co.uk) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Virginie and her husband Jake have packed in the rat race and spent their savings on a small yacht. Flying to Malaysia to take ownership of their new home/transport, their plan is to head to Thailand and see […]

WILD FIRES by Sophie Jai

WILD FIRES Sophie Jai (www.sophiejai.com) The Borough Press (boroughpress.co.uk) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The death of her cousin, Chevy, brings Cassandra’s family together in Toronto for the funeral. As she flies home from London, other family members are en route from Trinidad, where the family’s roots are still firmly bedded. […]

COMPETITION: Win a copy of EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie Dimaline

EMPIRE OF WILD Cherie Dimaline (cheriedimaline.com) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk) £14.99 Thanks to the lovely people at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, I have a copy of Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild to give away. Let’s have some fun with it: at its heart, Empire of Wild is a werewolf story, relying on the stories and legends […]

EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie Dimaline

EMPIRE OF WILD Cherie Dimaline (cheriedimaline.com) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk) £14.99 Stepping outside to cool off after an argument, Victor disappears into the forest and his wife, Joan, spends eleven months and six days trying to find him. On the seventh day of that fateful twelfth month, a hungover Joan pulls into the parking lot […]