Book of the month

Book of the month

Book of the month – August

Nathan Filer – Shock of the Fall is our book of the month for August. Winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award! 'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that.' The Shock of the Fall is an extraordinary portrait of one man's descent into mental illness. It is a brave and groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.

British Crime Book of the month – August

Alex Grecian – The Yard is our book of the month for August. 1890, London.  Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror is finally over, but a new one is just beginning…

British Crime Book of the month – July

Ian Sansom – The Norfolk Mystery is our book of the month for July.

Book of the month – July

David Leavitt – The Two Hotel Francforts is our book of the month for July.

British Crime Book of the month – June

Andrew Martin – Night Train to Jamalpur is our book of the month for June. India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment along. Was he the intended target?

Book of the month – June

Kevin Kwan – Crazy Rich Asians is our book of the month forJune. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian jet set; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money - and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.

British Crime Book of the month – May

William Shaw – A Song From Dead Lips is our British Crime Book for the month for May. A crime thriller that reveals gritty sixties London in all its power and prejudice.

Book of the month – May

Alice Nutting – Tampa is our book of the month for May. Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought.

British Crime Book of the month – April

M. R. C. Kasasian – The Mangle Street Murders is our book of the month for April. Set in a London still haunted by the spectre of the infamous Spring-heeled Jack, The Mangle Street Murders is for those who like their crime original, atmospheric, and very, very funny. 

Book of the month – April

Bernardine Evaristo – Mr Loverman is our book of the month for April. French Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather – but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris.
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