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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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Madame Matisse by Sophie Haydock
This book has the best book cover of the year so far. Matisse-like shapes of bodies and flowers in pinks and oranges spread across a…
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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…
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I recently watched a short snippet of the Australian version of Goggle Box where they were commenting on a programme that integrated four year olds…
Trying to read all the good books 