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Book of Hours
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On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
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An Interview With Novelist Nicole Mones
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Brontë in Brussels
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Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
May 26, 2026This is a broad ranging work as it manages to be poetic whilst drawing on current...
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
May 26, 2026Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch, is set in 1940s London, during and after the...
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
May 25, 2026The characters are well-drawn, clear, as are locations, thought processes and motivations but all the time...




