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 […]
Read More JAMES by Percival EverettTHE 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 […]
Read More THE CARTOON LIFE AND LOVES OF A STUPID MAN by Marc JoanTHE 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) […]
Read More THE LATECOMER by Jean Hanff KorelitzDEEP 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 […]
Read More DEEP WATER by Emma BamfordWILD 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. […]
Read More WILD FIRES by Sophie JaiEMPIRE 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 […]
Read More COMPETITION: Win a copy of EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie DimalineEMPIRE 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 […]
Read More EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie DimalineTHE BELL IN THE LAKE Lars Mytting (www.larsmytting.net) Translated by Deborah Dawkin MacLehose Press (www.maclehosepress.com) £16.99 Norway, 1880. Young, inquisitive Astrid is unlike the other girls in the secluded village at the end of the valley. She dreams of a life that consists of more than marrying, having children, and eventually dying from hard work […]
Read More THE BELL IN THE LAKE by Lars MyttingBORN SLIPPY Tom Lutz (www.tomlutzwriter.com) Repeater Books (repeaterbooks.com) £10.99 He left the bank and got in a cab. The cabbie turned and looked at him, waiting for an address. Frank pointed to the Bank of China bankbook; the driver looked confused, but then nodded and took him to a branch. Frank went in, waited briefly […]
Read More An Excerpt from BORN SLIPPY by Tom LutzIMAGINARY FRIEND Stephen Chbosky Orion Books (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £20.00 Kate Reese’s life has been a series of bad decisions since her husband took his own life in the bath several years before. When her latest boyfriend hits her, Kate packs up her few possessions, and her seven-year-old son, and flees eastward in the middle of the […]
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