A retelling of an old story from a new viewpoint
2021 – “The Women of Troy” by Pat Barker
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A favourite series draws to a close
A skeleton is traced to a student archeological dig
2020 – “The Goodbye Man” by Jeffery Deaver
A suspense thriller
2019 – “My Sister, the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Two sisters - many murders
2018 – “Normal People” by Sally Rooney
Two young Irish people have a troubled relationship
2017 – “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman
Eeanor thinks she is fine but maybe she is not
Serving justice forty years later
The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Anderson tells the story of Britain’s only war crimes trial which took place in 1999. The defendant in the trial was Andrei Sawoniuk who had immigrated to the UK after WW2 and spent his life working on the railways until his retirement. He was a racist, bad tempered, … Continue reading Serving justice forty years later
2016 – “The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro
A fable about memory
Life and death in the rainforest
The story of a 1925 expedition into the Amazonian rainforest
Festive mayhem
Short stories, each with a festive theme
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