Klara & the Sun (2022) by Kazuo Ishiguro Description ‘The Sun always has ways to reach us.’ From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street Read more…
A double-header this month to complete the book club’s nominations from last year. Read either or both. Book One: The Room in the Attic (2021) by Louise Douglas Description A child who does not know her name… In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, who has been Read more…
The Ghost by Robert Harris Description A body washes up on the deserted coastline of America’s most exclusive holiday retreat. But it’s no open-and-shut case of suicide. The death of Robert McAra is just the first piece of the jigsaw in an extraordinary plot that will shake the very foundations Read more…
Sapphire Skies (2015) by Belinda Alexandra Description A love bigger than a war. A beautiful woman lost. A mystery unsolved … until now. 2000: The wreckage of a downed WWII fighter plane is discovered in the forests near Russia’s Ukrainian border. The aircraft belonged to Natalya Azarova, ace pilot and Read more…
Anxious People (2021) by Fredrik Backman Description It’s New Year’s Eve and House Tricks estate agents are hosting an open viewing in an up-market apartment when an incompetent bank robber rushes in and politely takes everyone hostage. For Anna-Lena and Roger, busy buying-up apartments to fill the hole in their Read more…
The Lamplighters (2022), Emma Stonex Description Cornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. The entrance door is locked from the inside. The clocks have stopped. The Principal Keeper’s weather log describes a mighty storm, but the skies have been clear all week. What happened to Read more…
Not one, but two books this month! The Ghosts of Paradise Place (2019) by Andy Conway Don’t look back or the devil will get you… The dark anti-heroine of the bestselling time travel saga gets her own personal origin story in this novella that reveals how she first found her Read more…
A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal (2015) Ben Macintyre Description A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRÉ ‘Riveting, astounding … An unputdownable postwar thriller’ Observer ‘Irresistibly readable’ Sunday Times ‘Worthy of John le Carr e at his best’ Guardian ‘Hugely engrossing … Both authoritative and enthralling’ William Boyd Kim Philby Read more…
The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Elliot ‘If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?’ Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her Read more…
Piranesi (2021) by Susanna Clarke Winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction A SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Description Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of Read more…