A Single Thread, by Tracey Chevalier
At thirty-eight, Violet is a ‘surplus woman’, doomed to spinsterhood. But turning her back on a life of domestic servitude, she takes a bold and perilous step.
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At thirty-eight, Violet is a ‘surplus woman’, doomed to spinsterhood. But turning her back on a life of domestic servitude, she takes a bold and perilous step.
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Winnie M Li’s Dark Chapter, which examines the devastating effects of violent crime on the victim, is brave, raw and visceral.
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During the rise of the Third Reich, the world is in turmoil, friendships are tested beyond their limits and trust is destroyed.
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The story A group of people toil across a scorching desert towards a weird shelter on stilts: the ‘shuck’ they call home. Shimmering on the horizon, silhouettes, recognisable as once-thriving cities from disparate continents. Now abandoned and derelict, subject to wind and the relentless scouring sand, one of them holds the key to their survival
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ISBN: 9781408808979, Bloomsbury Patricia Highsmith is best known for her morally ambiguous suspense novels, including Strangers on a Train. Her biographer, Joan Schenkar, said Highsmith’s characters were so psychologically threatening that even her most devoted readers hoped never to recognise themselves in her novels. In 1952, at the start of her career, Highsmith wrote Carol
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Arrow Books (2017), ISBN-10: 9781784756260 It’s a rare writing talent that can compel you to read on when you know that the worst has already happened. Ellie was fifteen, her mother Laurel’s golden girl. Then, in the blink of an eye, she was gone. Ten years on, her family torn apart, her remaining daughter alienated and
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Black Swan (2019), ISBN-10: 1784163635 Although Once Upon a River is set in Victorian England, it often seems to belong to an older, darker, more magical time. The tale begins on a dark midwinter’s night on the upper reaches of the River Thames, in an ancient inn called The Swan. At this time, we’re told, an
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