Fiction

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – Feb 2022

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Winner of the 2021 Costa Book Award Best First Novel.   

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson
Open Water
Paperback

The School of Starting Over

Lisa Swift
The School of Starting Over
Paperback

The Office of Historical Corrections

Danielle Evans
The Office of Historical Corrections
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – Jan 2022

A gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.   America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown… A TikTok sensation.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Paperback

Claudine in Paris

Colette
Claudine in Paris
Paperback

Everything is Beautiful

Eleanor Ray
Everything is Beautiful
Paperback

Intimacies: Eleven More Stories

Lucy Caldwell
Intimacies: Eleven More Stories
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – Dec 2021

In every pub in every town, unspoken stories lie beneath the surface. Each week, six women meet at The Bluebell Inn. They form an unlikely and occasionally triumphant ladies darts team. They banter and jibe, they laugh. But their hidden stories of love and loss are what, in the end, will bind them. With humanity and insight, Kit Fielding reveals the great love that lies at the heart of female friendship. Raw, funny and devastating, all of life can be found at the Bluebell.
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