Book of the month

Book of the month

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – April 2021

Published on Tue, 2021-04-06 08:59
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Scabby Queen is a portrait of a woman who refuses to compromise, and a picture of a country that does nothing but. It’s about the silencing of women’s voices, about the destructive power of the celebrity machine, but most of all it is about empathy: its motives, its limits and the way it endlessly transformed. *Recommended by Jan*

Mystery Book of the Month – April 2021

Published on Tue, 2021-04-06 08:58
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She always went too far. DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing – resentful teenager in tow – from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Murder is different here, among the fens and stark beaches. Salt Lane is the first in the new DS Alexandra Cupidi series. With his trademark characterisation and flair for social commentary, William Shaw has crafted a crime novel for our time that grips you, mind and heart.

Noir Book of the Month – March 2021

Published on Mon, 2021-03-01 18:09
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Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. Seomtimes growing up means facing your demons...  Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – March 2021

Published on Mon, 2021-03-01 18:05
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”Such A Fun Age is a gripping page-turner with serious things to say about racism, class, gender, parenting, and privilege in modern America. Reid is a sharp and delightful storyteller, with a keen eye, buoyant prose, and twists that made me gasp out loud.” – Madeline Miller, author of Circe. * Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.

Noir Book of the Month – February 2021

Published on Thu, 2021-02-04 15:42
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Alaska, 1935: Slippery Wilson is on his way out of town when he runs into a woman, her neice, and a crashed car. His life is about to get a lot more complicated…

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – February 2021

Published on Thu, 2021-02-04 15:40
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”The Illness Lesson is a brilliant, suspenseful, beautifully-executed psychological thriller. With power, subtlety, and keen intelligence, Clare Beams has somehow crafted a tale that feels like both classical ghost story and like a modern (and very timely) scream of female outrage. I stayed up all night to finish reading it, and I can still feel its impact thrumming through my mind and body. A masterpiece”. ― Elizabeth Gilbert

Mystery Book of the Month – January 2021

Published on Sun, 2021-01-10 14:06
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The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalised beyond repair... Bradford Morrow reveals the passion that drives collectors to the razor-sharp edge of morality, brilliantly confronting the hubris and mortal danger of rewriting history with a fraudulent pen.

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – January 2021

Published on Sun, 2021-01-10 14:04
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Grace unexpectedly inherits a strange house and is also confronted with a sister she had never known, upon returning to Pondicherry, India. The alternating chaos and tenderness brought about by these new elements in her life are captured in this funny and surprising novel set to appeal to readers of Kiran Desai and Hanif Kureishi. Shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize 2020.

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – December 2020

Published on Wed, 2020-12-02 10:08
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PRAGUE, 1938: Eva flies down the street. A man steps out suddenly. PRAGUE, 1980: No one sees Ludek. A young boy can slip right under the heavy blanket that covers this city - the fear cannot touch him. Ludek is free.  MELBOURNE, 1980: Mala Liska’s grandma holds her hand as they climb the stairs to their third floor flat and a life imbued with the spirit of Prague and the loved ones left behind. Because there is still love. No matter what. Australian Indie Book Award Winner 2020. * Discuss this book in the online reading group, read more www.bookshop.se/readinggroups * –  

Noir Book of the Month – December 2020

Published on Wed, 2020-12-02 09:58
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In this thrilling debut, Heidi Kick – the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin – searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents twenty years ago – all as a winter storm rages in her embattled community. * Discuss this book in the online Crime reading group! See www.bookshop.se/readinggroups * –
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