Review by Edith Haeuser

This is a 700 page book, but a fascinating spy story, which the author wrote in homage to John Le Carré.

Review by Edith Haeuser

The story elegantly moves between past and present as we get to know her the life of her mother, who is suffering from dementia, and her mother's childhood during the Civil War.

Review by Dodie Hodgkinson (Edited by Erica Meltzer)

An electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies in contemporary India.

Review by Dodie Hodgkinson (Edited by Erica Meltzer)

Belonging and exile are at the heart of this novel of dislocation and trauma

Review by Jean Hilder

By award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey.

Review by Jean Hilder

Set in Tasmania and Australia, Flanagan juxtaposes his story of climate chaos with the tale of an elderly woman at the end of her life, but kept alive by the artifices of medical science

Review by Sam Laird

The Coffin Maker’s Garden relates the tracking of a long-term brutal serial killer near a fictional town, Oldcastle.  As a cliff-top house slides into the sea in a fierce storm, a number of skeletons appear, setting off the chase.  

Review by Moira John

This novella is set in the year 1949 in the aftermath of the period, known by Palestinians as the “Nakba” or “Catastrophe,” when hundreds of thousands were driven from their homes in the Palestinian Mandate into exile.

Review by Jean Hilder

A first novel, which won the Costa 1st novel prize in 2019, this book is set in Trinidad , and written in the Trinidadian dialect.  This sets the tone and atmosphere of the book perfectly.

Review by Erica Meltzer

This short story from 1957 is Baldwin at his rawest, most lyrical, most devastating best. A tale of two brothers in Harlem, it packs the trauma of racism and drug addiction.

Review by James Hodgkinson

A detective story: The setting is in the late 18th century and Thornleigh Hall, seat of the Earl of Sussex, dominates its surroundings. Its heir is missing.

Review by Hilary Sepahy

If you have ever wondered what your life would have been like if you’d taken a different decision at certain points in your life, then this is Atkinson’s key idea. 

Review by Jean Hilder

To say this is a book about the Holocaust is to diminish its scope. 

The richness of the prose envelops you as you read. 

Review by Sam Laird

Follett’s latest epic novel is the prequel to the highly successful trilogy that began with the best-selling Pillars of the Earth, set in the Middle Ages. 

Review by Dodie Hodgkinson

The story of the flight of two refugees from Syria to Europe during the Syrian

civil war.

Review by Jean Hilder

Written in a conversational style that is sometimes lyrical, it tells the story of 12 women of colour in the U.K. 

Review by Erica Meltzer

This slim, grim and riveting novella is based on a true story, about a Swiss Jew who was brutally murdered by Nazi thugs in 1942.