Category: Fiction
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Clear
Carys Davies is once again showing her talent in crafting the perfect short novel that combines enough action and character building to satisfy the most demanding reader. If you loved West, published in 2019, you must read Clear. Davies has carefully chosen each word to perfectly describe the remote Shetland Island and its only inhabitant,…
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Caledonian Road
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Greta & Valdin
By Rebecca K Reilly Paperback £9.99 This is a quirky, funny, easy-to-read novel about millennial siblings Greta and Valdin, living together in Auckland. Greta is a master’s student in comparative literature who is secretly in love with fellow tutor Holly. Valdin is a former astrophysicist who, after a breakdown, lost his boyfriend and became a…
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Onyx Storm
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Death at the Sanatorium
Ragnar Jónasson Paperback Need a pleasing mystery-to-curl-up-with on an autumn evening? I’ve just had the pleasure of reading Death at the Sanatorium. It fulfils all my criteria for a book to read as the equinox passes, trees change colour, and squirrels become frantic. It’s 2012 and Helgi, a young Icelandic criminologist, is writing his dissertation…
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Blessings
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Yellowface
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Less
By Andrew Sean Greer Paperback £9.99 This book made me laugh out loud while alone on the Tube, despite my best efforts (Londoners will know what a travel faux pas this is). Several sections took me a while to get through, due to crying with laughter and being unable to see the text. Arthur Less…
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Orbital
By Samantha Harvey Paperback £9.99 Orbital is a novel where nothing happens, in the best way. It is meditative and lyrical. It follows 24 hours in the lives of six astronauts on an international space station orbiting around Earth. They follow their routine (exercise, science experiments). They look out the windows. They reminisce. They wonder…
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Brandy Sour
by Constantia Soteriou Paperback £11.99 Blending fact and fiction, this is essentially a collection of short stories all connected to the real Ledra Palace Hotel located in Nicosia, during a turbulent time in Cyprus’s history. This is a gem by new small press Foundry Editions, specialized in Mediterranean writing in translation – modern, poetic, and…
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Murder Under the Mistletoe
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Small Worlds
by Caleb Azumah Nelson Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Small Worlds follows 18-year-old jazz musician Stephen as he navigates family, romance and the transition from teenage life to adulthood in Peckham. From Sixth Form to university then back in London, he considers filial duty, the meaning of community, his hyphenated Ghanaian identity and his professional ambitions. The…
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Tell Me Everything
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Hello Beautiful
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The Man in Black and Other Stories
Elly Griffiths Paperback This is an excellent collection of short stories from the author of the Ruth Galloway mystery series. It was my ideal holiday read. I’ve read all of the Galloway books and was chuffed to get some further news of my favourite characters (including Flint the cat). Fans will recognise folks from other…
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The Boyfriend
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