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There are rivers in the sky by Elif Shafak
This story starts with a raindrop falling on the head of King Ashurbanipal, ruler and murderer of people but also holder of the most miraculous…
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Now we shall be entirely free by Andrew miller
In the early 1800s John Lacroix returns home from fighting in Spain. His injuries are not obvious, but injured he is and exhausted. His housemaid…
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Snowdrops by A. D. Miller
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Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
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The Party by Tessa Hadley
Hadley is a writer who majors on family life, sometimes historical, always domestic focusing on relationships. They tend to be what I call ‘quiet’ novels…
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You are here by David Nicholls
One of the last books we read in book club was Pride and Prejudice, although I misremembered and read Sense and Sensibility instead, and I…
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I haven’t had a great reading year in terms of books that I have loved or even scored 4 out of 5 but this book,…
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Set in the future when the waters have risen, The Morningside shows us a world that could be ours. Not too far away to be…
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This was a book chosen for our book group and sparked wide-ranging discussions from AI to the number of ‘Lawrences’ that we know and so…
Trying to read all the good books 