literary fiction
From it’s beautiful cover to its beautiful writing, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is a joy to read. The one hundred years referenced in the title are the collective ages of 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year-old Margot, the protagonists of writer Marianne Cronin’s debut novel. Margot has lived a full and … Continue readings
Tags : Doubleday debuts, Doubleday literature, friendship novels, literary fiction, Marianne Cronin, Marianne Cronin's debut novel, The One Hundred Years o Lenni and Margot, women's fiction
Newfoundland is one of those places that captures the imagination – if, indeed, you are aware of it at all. We love books like Michael Crummey’s The Innocents, which evoke its haunting, savage, challenging, sometimes extremely strange landscape, which really is like nowhere else on earth. That alone would make us like this … Continue readings
Tags : award-winning fiction, Canadian literature, literary fiction, Michael Crummey, Newfoundland, novels set in Newfoundland, The Innocents
‘Where does a mistake begin?’ Juliet Partlow asks at the beginning of Amity Gaige’s novel, Sea Wife. ‘… Did my mistake begin with the boat? Or my marriage itself?’ And from that very first page, we know that something terrible has happened. The Partlows are a normal couple, living in the suburbs, with their … Continue readings
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Caroline Hulse’s latest book, Like A House on Fire, is an incisive, incredibly funny study of how families behave in crisis. Told from multiple perspectives, the book revolves around a family party, a wedding anniversary with a murder–mystery theme, where pretty much every person has a secret which he or she is guarding, … Continue readings
Tags : Caroline Hulse, family dynamics, Fleabag, Like A House on Fire, literary fiction, Mike Leigh, new fiction
Keith Carter’s The Umbrella Man is an insightful and often amusing view of the global economy and financial crisis of the late noughties and the repercussions that seemingly unrelated decisions can have on our lives. Central character Peter Mount is CEO of Rareterre, a small mining company based in London. When a group of … Continue readings
Tags : financial crisis, graphic illustrators, Keith Carter, literary fiction, Magritte, Neem Press, The Umbrella Men