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What To Read

Nov 5, 2021

Author Margot Hart is employed as a writer in residence at Castle Deverill, which has been turned into a luxury hotel, and sets out to write a biography about the famous Irish family who used to own it. But as she slowly forms a bond with the reclusi

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Story Time

Nov 4, 2020

Emily Main is a London-based journalist writing a story for The New Yorker who, as the book opens, is flying in to Sydney. She’s there to write a story about the tragic demise of famous Aussie restaurant chain Lucky’s following a mass shooting at one

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The William Trevor Reader: “In Isfahan”

Apr 26, 2022

I count this story as the fourth stone-cold masterpiece we’ve encountered so far. The post The William Trevor Reader: “In Isfahan” appeared first on The Millions.

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Paris, 13th District

Mar 25, 2022

★★★★☆ Jacques Audiard’s freewheeling ensemble picture Paris, 13th District, or Les Olympiades, is a sexy film about sexiness. The movie lives in the jittery longing of before-sex, the woozy residue of after-sex, the urgency of during-sex. People here

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Two To Tango: Mark Billingham Mystery Explores Partnership

Aug 11, 2023

Welcome to Blackpool, England. Home to faded casinos, blazing neon, and the ebb and flow of holiday makers.  In “The Last Dance,” international bestselling author Mark Billingham plunks readers into this drizzly seaside town. One part has-been, one p

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SECRETS & LIES

Jul 28, 2023

BY MARK BILLINGHAM LITTLE, BROWN Detective Sergeant Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife, Alex. His new partner is DS Sara Xiu, a heavy-metal enthusiast who rides a powerful Yamaha motorcycle. Their first case is the double

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Books Of The Month

Jun 30, 2023

By Nilanjana Roy Framed as a police procedural, but with the breadth of a saga, this ambitious novel begins with the murder of an eight-year-old girl in a village a few hours from Delhi. Young Munia is strung from a tree because she has witnessed the

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Enchanting chapters WEEKLY TOP 10

Nov 20, 2022

With best-selling author Nicky Pellegrino One of New Zealand’s best-loved novels, this is the story of five-year-old Rose, who arrives with her mother in the bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston on the West Coast in the late 1800s. It is a rough

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Nov 3, 2022

£10.72, AMAZON It’s Christmas time in Shady Palms, but Lila’s trip home for the holidays is far from a fairytale. Wherever her cousin Ronnie goes, trouble follows. So, when he is accused of murder, secrets and rumours about her family start piling up

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Hot Right Now!

Nov 3, 2022

£10.72, AMAZON It’s Christmas time in Shady Palms, but Lila’s trip home for the holidays is far from a fairytale. Wherever her cousin Ronnie goes, trouble follows. So, when he is accused of murder, secrets and rumours about her family start piling up

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Family Business

Nov 2, 2022

RELEASED OUT NOW! 336 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Jonathan Sims Publisher Gollancz What happens at a crime scene after the police have been and gone? In her new job as a trauma cleaner, Diya finds out: usually, a team of specialists comes

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Family Business

Nov 2, 2022

RELEASED OUT NOW! 336 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Jonathan Sims Publisher Gollancz What happens at a crime scene after the police have been and gone? In her new job as a trauma cleaner, Diya finds out: usually, a team of specialists comes

TIME

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A Town Without Pity—or Women

Nov 20, 2017

TELL SOMEONE YOU DON’T CARE FOR the work of English-Irish playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths), and you might be labeled a softie, a flower too delicate for McDonagh’s bitter-bleak comic vision of human nature in al

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The Story Behind…

Aug 19, 2022

The first chapter of my book about Mary, Queen of Scots was scarcely begun when lockdown descended. I remember that first morning, when the silence beyond the windows was unnerving. No passing cars or tradesmen’s vans disturbed the peace. No horses p

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Your TOP 20 NOVELS

Jun 3, 2021

Reading is one of life’s greatest pleasures and, during lockdown, many of us have revisited or discovered some of the greatest fiction ever written. These are the books you’ve told us you love the most. When a plane crashes on a desert island, the

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The William Trevor Reader: “Events at Drimaghleen”

Jun 6, 2023

This might actually win the award for the bleakest story in the 'Collected.' The post The William Trevor Reader: “Events at Drimaghleen” appeared first on The Millions.

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Books

May 25, 2020

In this novel, set amid the Spanish Civil War, Isabel Allende gives us a short but incisive account of the horrors of war, as seen through the eyes of the Dalmau family from Barcelona, the Republican forces’ centre. It’s 1938, and the Republicans are