Category: Fiction
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Headshot
By Rita Bullwinkel Paperback, £9.99 Headshot follows the seven fights that determine the winner of the Daughters of America women youth boxing tournament taking place in Reno, Nevada. Under the dusty light of Bob’s Boxing Palace, eight teenagers from across the country have their go at hitting each other and achieving something big. Set over…
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Nadezhda in the Dark
By Yelena Moskovich A Jewish Ukrainian-American woman spends the longest, coldest night of the year in bed with her Russian girlfriend, Nadezhda, in their Berlin apartment. There, against the backdrop of the antisemitic violence that forced her family to flee to the US when she was a child and of the new Russian war on…
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Brotherless Night
By V. V. Ganeshananthan Paperback, £9.99 An outstanding novel of the Sri Lankan civil war, showing how life can change in an instant and forever. We follow Sashi as she grows up, with hard choices about loyalty and family. Gripping and humane.
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What You Are Looking for is in the Library
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The Fraud
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Absolutely & Forever
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The Guest
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The Rachel Incident
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain
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Long Island
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Four Seasons in Japan
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The Prey
By Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Paperback, £9.99 Another excellent crime thriller from Icelandic author Sigurðardóttir. Three seemingly disparate stories intertwine tighter and tighter, leading to a convincing (and for me, gasp-inducing) conclusion. A man finds out he had a younger sister who died – he has no recollection of her, but family neighbours tell him that she…
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The Last Devil to Die
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Mrs. S
by K Patrick In reflective, introverted prose, both lyrical and concise, K. Patrick tells the story of an unnamed, Australian 22-year-old working as a matron in an all-girl boarding school over the course of a warm English summer. Despite the setting, the focus is on the adults, instead of the students in this novel. The…
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Kairos
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The Wren, The Wren
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Until August
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In Memoriam
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