Love & Longing In Dublin Sally Rooney’s Normal People, came out to rave reviews and inclusion in the Booker longlist. The novel is a sombre version of When Harry Met Sally, using accepted…
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The Lady Vanishes British novelist Belinda Bauer’s Snap was longlisted for the Man Booker Award last year, one of the rare suspense books to be included in that hallowed roll. The opening chapter of the…
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Hard-Boiled Detective Sara Gran’s tough-yet-vulnerable protagonist, Claire DeWitt, belongs to the best tradition of those never-say-die, hard-boiled detectives of classic noir crime fiction. A female version of Dashiell Hammett or…
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Ballard Meets Bosch In The Last Show, Michael Connelly had introduced a fiery new female character, Renee Ballard, an LAPD cop, who chose to accept the night shift rather than put…
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Three Pines Revisited The bleak, snowy winters do not hamper the warmth of the people of Three Pines, the fictional Canadian village, that Louise Penny created for bestselling novels about…
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Romancing The Snow Bestselling author Debbie Macomber’s latest, Alaskan Holiday, is a lightweight romance, a quick-read-and-forget sort of novel about an aspiring chef, Josie Avery, who takes up a short-term job of cooking in…
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Horowitz & Hawthorne Anthony Horowitz is a bestselling author, who has written two Bond thrillers, Trigger Mortis and Forever And A Day, a Sherlock Holmes mystery, The House Of Silk, his own very popular Alex Rider series…