Fiction

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – October 2024

Published on Mon, 2024-10-07 12:51
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While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he’s supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he – mostly – stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he’s told, and his future is lit with promise. But when Sean returns home from university, he finds much of the same – the same friends doing the same gear in the same clubs, the same fathers and brothers missing… One night, he assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone. Close to Home begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles.  //  Discuss in the Fiction reading group  //

Close to Home

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Michael Magee Close to Home

Michael Magee
Close to Home
Paperback

The Little Board Game Café

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Jennifer Page The Little Board Game Café

Jennifer Page
The Little Board Game Café
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – September 2024

Published on Fri, 2024-09-06 12:05
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One family’s deepest pain. Another’s darkest secret. Who will they be when the truth comes out? On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi’kmaq people from Nova Scotia, pick fruit. That afternoon, Ruthie vanishes without a trace. As the last person to see her, Joe will be forever haunted by grief, guilt, and the agony of imagining how his life could have been… The Berry Pickers is an exquisitely moving story of unrelenting hope, unwavering love, and the power of family – even in the face of grief and betrayal.

The Berry Pickers

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Amanda Peters The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters
The Berry Pickers
Paperback

Ceremony

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Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony
Paperback

The Burnout

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Sophie Kinsella The Burnout

Sophie Kinsella
The Burnout
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – August 2024

Published on Wed, 2024-08-07 17:42
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In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where Jewish immigrants and African Americans lived side by side through the 1920s and ’30s. In this novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them, James McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community – heaven and earth – that sustain us.  //  Discuss in the Fiction reading group  //  

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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James McBride The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – July 2024

Published on Tue, 2024-07-02 13:34
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”What are you looking for?” So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. But she is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it. We meet five visitors to the library, each at a different crossroads, from a hopeful young manga artist to a mother facing demotion at work – they all go to the library to find that special book only she can find for them.  //  Discuss in the Fiction reading group  //  
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