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For fans of the award-winning novelist, this is an entertaining glimpse into his home life and behind-the-scenes of the literary world in which he mixes.

A short story to be devoured in one sitting, about how the past always catches up with you.

Named as the Book of the Year everywhere, it seems, this is described as 'an insightful and painfully funny account of a family strained to breaking point' by 'one of our finest prose stylists'. What will we think of it?

The fourth in the Two Rivers series with detective Matthew Venn.

This acclaimed, award-winning debut novel has been described as a 'brave and thrilling...page-turner about trauma and repression'. Said to appeal to fans of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan, what will we make of it?

Despite struggling with the title, and the cover, of this debut novel, winner of the Merky Books New Writers Prize 2024, everyone enjoyed this account of grief, identity and relationship. Accomplished writing and good characterisation, it was agreed, but the alternating narratives grated with some. The car proved the star for a number of our readers!

The winner of this year's Booker Prize follows six astronauts on the international space station as they complete the daily sixteen (90 minute) orbits of the planet. The book has been described as 'beautiful and ambitious'. What will we think?

An inspiring, uplifting and energising account of some good news stories behind the headlines.