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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman review – cosy crime caper
In the Pointless creator’s bestselling debut, amateur sleuths in an upmarket retirement village investigate a murder a bit too close to home
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03, Oct, 2020 @8:00 AM
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers review – a suburban mystery
There is compassion and quiet humour to be found in this tale of a putative virgin birth in postwar Britain
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01, Jul, 2020 @8:00 AM
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver review – the cult of fitness
Shriver’s contentious views on diversity thread through the story of a couple’s strained relationship with exercise
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08, May, 2020 @11:00 AM
Greenwood by Michael Christie review – an arresting eco-parable
Ecological catastophe has led to the destruction of trees … a bleak vision of the future with Steinbeckian cadences
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18, Mar, 2020 @8:58 AM
Correspondents by Tim Murphy review – a tale of New England’s Arab migrants
A young war reporter’s view of Baghdad is at the heart of this sweeping multi-generational saga
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24, Jan, 2020 @9:00 AM
Royals by Emma Forrest review – love, trauma and teen dreams
Wild ambition and 1980s hedonism in a tale of two damaged teenagers obsessed with Princess Diana
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24, Oct, 2019 @11:00 AM
The Confession by Jessie Burton review – an understated triumph
The secret history of a reclusive novelist is revealed in a study of motherhood and creativity by the author of The Miniaturist
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21, Sep, 2019 @6:30 AM
Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls review – teenage kicks
Bored 16-year-old Charlie becomes a reluctant Shakespearean actor in this funny, affectionate exploration of first love from the writer of One Day
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12, Jul, 2019 @9:00 AM
This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik review – a modern comedy of manners
What happens when a Muslim man is tasked with establishing a mosque in his sleepy English village?
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12, Jun, 2019 @7:59 AM
Plume by Will Wiles review – where satire meets surrealism
A mysterious column of smoke fills the London sky, in this stylish and funny tale about a journalist on the rocks
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25, May, 2019 @8:00 AM
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr review – a poignant debut novel
Twin narratives of internment during the second Boer war and a 21st–century training camp, from the author of the memoir Maggie and Me
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06, Apr, 2019 @6:30 AM
In the Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark review – art and scandal
Masterpieces one moment, worthless the next – a hoard of ‘Van Goghs’ are at the centre of an irresistible story set in 1920s Berlin
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06, Mar, 2019 @12:00 PM
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