CRUCIBLE John Sayles (johnsaylesblog.com) Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop As the Roaring Twenties approach their end, October 1929 brings the Wall Street Crash and the start of what will come to be known as the Great Depression. In Detroit, Michigan, the Ford Motor Company continues to pay its […]
Read More CRUCIBLE by John SaylesTO 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 […]
Read More TO SAVE THE MAN by John SaylesJAMES 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 UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF ZINA PAVLOU Eleni Kyriacou (elenikwriter.com) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Eva Georgiou is a Greek immigrant living in London with her husband. At night she works the coat check in the Café de Paris, and her name is on the Metropolitan Police’s list […]
Read More THE UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF ZINA PAVLOU by Eleni KyriacouRIVER GOD Wilbur Smith (wilbursmithbooks.com) Zaffre (bonnierbooks.co.uk) £10.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Taita is a slave to the pharaoh’s grand vizier, Lord Intef, a man whom he fears greatly, and who is responsible for his castration. When Intef manages to manouvre his daughter, Lostris, into the king’s sphere of awareness, and […]
Read More RIVER GOD by Wilbur SmithCHASING THE DRAGON Mark Wightman (markwightmanauthor.com) Hobeck Books (hobeck.net) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Singapore, 1940. The body of an American archaeologist gets caught in a fishing platform off the island’s southern shore. He has been wrapped in a fishing net and has been force-fed two balls of rough opium. Inspector […]
Read More CHASING THE DRAGON by Mark WightmanRELENTLESS MELT Jeremy P. Bushnell (jeremypbushnell.com) Melville House Books (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Artie Quick is a 17-year-old Bostonian who wants to know everything there is to know about crime. By day, Artie is a shopgirl in Filene’s department store; by night, she dresses in men’s clothes so she […]
Read More RELENTLESS MELT by Jeremy P. BushnellTHE CURATOR Owen King (owen-king.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In an unnamed city in a world not unlike our own, revolution has ousted the people who have been in charge for generations. Dora, a young maid at the university, walks out of her job with one […]
Read More THE CURATOR by Owen KingTHE WOLF MILE Book One of The Pantheon C. F. Barrington (cfbarrington.com) Ad Astra / Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite bookshop. Tyler Maitland has been searching for his sister, Morgan, since she disappeared – seemingly into thin air – a year earlier. Lana Cameron has been searching for meaning […]
Read More THE WOLF MILE by C. F. BarringtonTHE HUNGER Alma Katsu (www.almakatsubooks.com) Bantam Press (www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk) £12.99 In Spring 1846, George Donner packs up his family and his belongings, points his wagons westward, and heads for a new life in California. After joining up with another party, Donner makes a decision that not everyone will live to regret. As tensions build amongst the […]
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