The Promise - Booker Prize Winner 2021 by Damon Galgut

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Category: Fiction

Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the d ialogue dramatic, the action gripping. As we traverse the decades, Damon interweaves the story of a disappointed nation from apartheid to Jacob Zuma. ...Show more

Devotion by Hannah Kent

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Category: Fiction

Never by Ken Follett

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Category: Fiction

Visionary in scale, and the first contemporary novel in over a decade from number one worldwide bestseller Ken Follett, Never imagines the unimaginable: the imminent threat of World War Three . . . Expertly researched and set against a global stage, Never will take you on a high-stakes journey from the heat of the Sahara Desert to the political arenas of North America, East Asia and beyond, and sees a world edging closer to an unprecedented global crisis. More than a thriller, this immersive tour de force from a world-renowned author at the top of his game imagines a scenario we all hope never comes true, and one which will keep you transfixed until the final page.  ...Show more

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

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Category: Fiction

It is 2019 in America, All Souls Day, when the borderline that separates the living from the dead is most porous. Recently released from a decades-long prison sentence, Tookie - a headstrong and deeply wronged Ojibwe woman with a chequered past - must make a life for herself in a changed, charged world. During her incarceration, her only lifeline were the books she 'learned to read with murderous attention', so when she finds work at a local independent bookshop she also finds kindred spirits among an eclectic, often eccentric, community of fellow booksellers and readers. But soon the ghosts come calling. When the bookshop's most persistent customer, Flora, dies, she refuses to leave the shelves alone and it soon becomes clear this revenant has unfinished business with Tookie in particular. As the months pass, a deadly disease spreads, violence ignites, nature howls - and Tookie is drawn deeper into her quest to discover what Flora's message might be, while trying to navigate her complicated love with the tribal police officer who arrested her all those years ago. Her search leads her right back to her roots and the stories her ancestors told; what Tookie unearths is a shocking personal revelation that resonates beyond her to a world in pain. Can the dead teach the living how to survive the present? Can the living lay injustices of the past to rest in peace? The Sentence is an unforgettable novel about an unforgettable year. It is a novel about identity, redemption, betrayal and forgiveness; a ghost story, a love story and a love letter to the haunting power of the written word. ...Show more

The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom

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Category: Fiction

The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of global phenomenon Tuesdays with Morrie Adrift in a raft after their ship sinks, nine strangers wait for rescue. After three days, short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him on board - and the stranger claims h e can save them. But should they put their trust in this new stranger? Why did the ship really sink? And will any of them see home again? The Stranger in the Lifeboat is a deeply moving, compelling novel about the power of love and hope in the face of danger, as well as a mystery that will keep you guessing to the very end. 'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern ...Show more

The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

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Category: Crime and Thrillers

Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year's Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice for an innocent victim in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly   There's chaos in Hollywood on New Year's Eve. Working h er graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard seeks shelter at the end of the countdown to wait out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. As reports start to roll in of shattered windshields and other damage, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. It doesn't take long for Ballard to determine that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky. Ballard's investigation leads her to look into another unsolved murder--a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. Ballard and Bosch team up once again to find out where the old and new cases intersect. All the while they must look over their shoulders. The killer who has stayed undetected for so long knows they are coming after him. ...Show more

The Gardener by Salley Vickers

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Category: Fiction

A charming new novel about two sisters who buy a ramshackle country house together, from the bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmothers Two sisters.  Halcyon and Marguerite Days, after heated exchanges and months of debate, had put together the money left them by their father and bought Knight 's Fee, a house in Hope Wenlock, just on the English side of the Welsh Borders. The house was timbered, roomy and, certainly on the outside, picturesque; "a jigsaw picture house", it was described by the agents (a description which had for some time set Hassie against going to view it). What she had seen, when Margot's persistence eroded her resistance, was a rambling redbrick building, covered in Virginia creeper, with a sprawling garden, invaded by weeds, yellow fungi, and clumps of brooding nettles. When the sisters hire Murat, who has recently arrived in Hope Wenlock from Albania, to be their gardener, they unwittingly unleash tensions in the quiet English village they have begun to call home. The Gardener is a beautifully observed tale of sisterhood, secrets, belonging and new beginnings, from the best-selling author of The Librarian. ...Show more