An international bestseller, The Invisible Guardian is a gripping psychological thriller following a police inspector who reluctantly returns to her hometown to solve a series of eerie murders.
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Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Garden of Evening Mists
A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The House on Mango Street
Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous-Sandra Cisneros’ masterpiece, The House on Mango Street, is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery.
Reading a Prize Winner With Booko: Hamnet
Hamnet, Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, is a tale of two extraordinary people and a love that draws them together along with a loss that threatens to tear them apart.
Happy Friday
It’s inching closer to the weekend, and while it may not quite be the weekend we had originally planned it’s still time to close the laptop and snuggle up with a good book. Stay safe everyone.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. It’s our pick of the day.
Reading a Prize Winner With Booko: In At The Deep End
In At The Deep End is a deliciously disarming debut novel about a twenty-something Londoner who discovers that she may have been looking for love and pleasure in all the wrong places.
Reading a prize winner with Booko: An American Marriage
An American Dream is a moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple and Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.
Reading a prize winner with Booko: The Nickel Boys
Based on the history of a real reform school that warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great novelist.
#tuesdaychat
Contemporary fiction is in its element at the moment as so many great titles are being released in this genre. Which is your current favourite?