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Corruption, Betting and a Cricketer’s Secrets

Police corruption, rigged betting and a syndicate protecting its own means there's a lot going on in Hero, and DS Walker is the...

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Humanity in the Dust

By the end of a working day, Constable Hirsch is bloated on cups of tea he didn't want, because he knows he's the...

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The Mother Who Woke Up French

One morning Teresa wakes up speaking with a French accent, and her son Paddy – a speech therapist – can't explain it any...

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A Reunion Novel from Ann Patchett

Eddie disappears from Daphne's life when she's nine, and it takes forty years and a chance meeting in a museum for either of...

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A Quiet Life, Fully Seen

Elizabeth Strout’s The Things We Never Say allows us to do something that remains so elusive in real life: to know what is...

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A Rich Family Saga Spanning India and America

By the time I finished Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, I felt like I'd completed something big – not just...

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Enter at Your Own Risk: The Book of Guilt Is Impossible to Escape

I finished ‘The Book of Guilt’ feeling relieved to be out of its world. I raced through it in barely a day and...

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Laughing all the way to the traffic jam

Reading ‘Gridlock’ feels like being strapped into a high-speed chase that never escapes the system it's racing against. Ben Elton delivers a fast,...

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A Light Read That Refuses to Settle: Monica Ali’s ‘Untold Story’

By the end of ‘Untold Story’, I still didn't know what its heroine wanted – and that uncertainty is exactly what makes the...

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Dream Count: A Braided World You Won’t Want to Leave

I didn't want to leave the world of Dream Count. When I picked up my next book , I could feel the difference....