Cahokia Jazz (2023) by Francis Spufford Summary A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, Read more
It’s a Back to School special. Check out this ten of the best in boarding school and campus novels. Classics of Children’s Fiction If you liked this literary list, see here for more Lit Lists and book reviews. Love reading? Want to meet like-minded people? Pop along to the Burton Book Club for novel Read more
Godmersham Park (2023) by Gill Hornby Description Early evening, 1804: Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent. Alone and desperately in need of an independent income, she is to become a governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. But her new role in this large household where she is neither a Read more
Last time we focused on Classical Greek and Roman myths. Here we have ten of the best renditions of myths from the rest of the world. If you liked this literary list, see here for more Lit Lists and book reviews. Love reading? Want to meet like-minded people? Pop along to the Burton Read more
The Hiding Places (2017) by Katherine Webb Description ‘What could be more important than finding the truth?’ Wiltshire, 1922. Fifteen-year old Pudding Cartwright has begun the career she always wanted, as ‘girl groom’ to the Hadleigh family’s horses at Manor Farm. Irene Hadleigh is struggling to adjust to her new Read more
Top 10: myths retold or reimagined Ten of the best novels inspired by Greek mythology.
Lessons in Chemistry (2022) by Bonnie Garmus Description THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The multi-million copy bestsellerAs read on BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeWinner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel AwardBritish Book Awards Author of the Year ‘Sparky, rip-roaring, funny, with big-hearted fully formed, loveable characters’ SUNDAY TIMES Read more
Top 10: nautical fiction Whether you’re into mutineers and buccaneers, or murder and madness, all aboard for high seas adventures with this top ten. Bubbling under
A Little Life (2022) by Hanya Yanagihara Description The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise and The People in the Trees, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book AwardsShortlisted for the Read more
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