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For nine months now, Tom Kettle has got to enjoy the quiet solitude of retirement after ending his career with the garda. From his rented...

Sunday has quiet day and currently eats only white foods. She cannot drink anything that is not fizzy and feels best burying her hands in...

Penang, 1921. Lesley and Robert Hamlyn are expecting an important visitor. “Willie” Somerset Maugham, who has been travelling through...

Nigeria – a country marked by extreme poverty and breath-taking wealth – is home to Eniola and Wúràolá, the two protagonists of Ayọ̀bámi...

Now that Gopi’s mother has died, it is up to her and her sisters to try and keep their father from falling apart. The only thing he still...

For some reason I expected not to enjoy this novel. Based on some blurb or review, I’d saved it in a similar category to Study for...

In the fictional town of Emory, Eoin takes a walk with his 13 year old son Jamie who can’t stop talking for a second, filled with...

A young woman moves to an unnamed Northern country to stay with her older brother as a housekeeper. Here she faces not only the strange...

I finished Prophet Song by Paul Lynch a few weeks ago, but I could not sit down and write up my thoughts about this novel right away,...

Rarely do I sit down to type up my review with no idea how to begin. But first things first: I loved The Bee Sting. There is so much...

I am sad to report that this was quite a disappointing read for me. Not because it was bad but I had such high expectations and it just...

What are you? That’s the question you are asked by everyone from a young age. Because to a society that is built on a clear hierarchy of...

Christopher Banks’ life changes over night when shortly after his father’s disappearance his mother goes missing, too. In early twentieth...

Leigh grows up in Rotterdam, at 22 feet below sea level, and develops a fascination with the ocean from an early age. When she swims, she...

Unrest is spreading over Jidada. The Old Horse has fallen, the revolutionary government is replaced by a new self-proclaimed liberation...

Kiara is seventeen and desperately trying to pay the rent that has been increased yet again. After her father’s death and with her mother...

Lia’s carefully calibrated life is about to be turned upside down yet again. The cancer she battled years ago is back. And spreading....

At the beginning was Sappho, who spoke of her lovers and for sapphic women centuries on. Women – artists, writers, dancers, actresses –...

Joe is watching time pass by, measuring his days by Noony, the train that comes past his window once a day. He is all alone in his house,...

Maali Almeida is dead and has just woken up in the afterlife, though he does not know yet. For how he still believes he is having a weird...