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The Creak on the Stairs 

Author : Eva Bjoerg AEgisdottir 

Published: 2020

A murder resulting from child abuse 30 years ago in a small town community

Synopsis 124 words


05 Jan '22  

5 Jan '22

fiction

The Sea, the Sea 

Author : Iris Murdoch 

Published: 1978

Theatre luvvy actor/director star retires to house by sea.


02 Jan '22  

2 Jan '22

fiction

The Web of Meaning 

Author : Jeremy Lent 

Published: 2021

Pulling it all together - everything is connected and we need to really know or live that


13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

non-fiction

How to Blow Up a Pipeline 

Author : Andreas Malm 

Published: 2021

Not an instruction manual but an argument for doing it.

Synopsis 133 words


23 Nov '21  

23 Nov '21

non-fiction

The Gustav Sonata 

Author : Rose Tremain 

Published: 2017

Only in their sixties do Gustav and Anton achieve their destiny

Synopsis 77 words


21 Nov '21  

21 Nov '21

fiction

Rupture 

Author : Ragnar Jonasson 

Published: 2012

Dark Iceland (book 4 in English series)

Synopsis 186 words


18 Nov '21  

18 Nov '21

fiction

Recursion 

Author : Blake Crouch 

Published: 2019

Memory and time. Paradoxes and spirals.

Synopsis 73 words


08 Nov '21  

8 Nov '21

fiction

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 

Author : Olga Tokarczuk 

Published: 2009

Polish existential thriller

Synopsis 86 words


22 Oct '21  

22 Oct '21

fiction

Introduction to Systems Philosophy 
Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought

Author : Ervin Laszlo 

Published: 1972

How it all fits together as systems of systems


22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

non-fiction

A Bit of a Stretch 
The diaries of a prisoner

Author : Chris Atkins 

Published: 2020

Diary of 12 months spent as a prisoner in Wandsworth by the author

Synopsis 26 words


13 Oct '21  

13 Oct '21

non-fiction

Middle England 
Rotters Club 3

Author : Jonathan Coe 

Published: 2019

2010-2017 for the middle classes of middle england

Synopsis 39 words


05 Oct '21  

5 Oct '21

fiction

Small Pleasures 

Author : Clare Chambers 

Published: 2020

1957 life in SE London/Kent

Synopsis 118 words


15 Sep '21  

15 Sep '21

fiction

The Last Kingdom 

Author : Bernard Cornwell 

Published: 2004

The wars between the Danes, the Saxons and the Britons as seen by a Northumberland lad.

Synopsis 56 words


15 Jun '21  

15 Jun '21

fiction

Shuggie Bain 

Author : Douglas Stuart 

Published: 2020

Single parent life from pov of mother and son in Glasgow 1980s

Synopsis 60 words


01 Jun '21  

1 Jun '21

fiction

The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax 

Author : Christopher Shevlin 

Published: 2011

Everyman Jonathon helps bring down the government by uncovering a conspiracy of corruption.


22 Apr '21  

22 Apr '21

fiction

Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency 
War Communism in the 21st Century

Author : Andreas Malm 

Published: 2020

Pulling together the strands of Covid19, ecological crisis and traditional marxist-lenninist analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalism.


12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

non-fiction

Pine 

Author : Francine Toon 

Published: 2020

Crime or Horror or a simple Ghost Story through the eyse of a 10 year old girl.


23 Mar '21  

23 Mar '21

fiction

The Old Drift 

Author : Namwali Serpell 

Published: 2019

A saga of Zambia spanning the 20th Century and beyond.

Synopsis 53 words


02 Mar '21  

2 Mar '21

fiction

Borkmann’s Point 
Van Veeteren Book 2

Author : Hakan Nesser 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


21 Jan '21  

21 Jan '21

fiction

Entangled Life 
How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures

Author : Merlin Sheldrake 

Published: 2020

An introduction to the world from the point of view of fungi. Symbiotic beings which live as a network.

Synopsis 107 words


21 Jan '21  

21 Jan '21

non-fiction

The Garden Jungle 
Gardening to Save the Planet

Author : Dave Goulson 

Published: 2019

The wildlife in the English garden explored. Be friends with your bugs and wee beasties. Plus recipes!


04 Jan '21  

4 Jan '21

non-fiction

The Case of Comrade Tulayev 

Author : Victor Serge 

Published: 1943

Life in the Soviet Union in the Party around 1938/9 and the during preceding 30 years

Synopsis 69 words


03 Jan '21  

3 Jan '21

fiction

Where the Crawdads Sing 

Author : Delia Owens 

Published: 2018

Girl child of 7 lives alone in the North Carolina marsh after her family all leave her abusive dad. Grows into a strange isolated young woman, who is taught by nature and the marsh.

Synopsis 406 words


26 Nov '20  

26 Nov '20

fiction

Little Siberia 

Author : Antti Tuomainen 

Published: 2000

Maybe the original Finnish Noir - with all the confusing events and comedy moments that noir fiction should have. Set in a small town in northern Finland where the village priest has to take on a role guarding a meteorite and working out WTF is going on a


16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

fiction

The King's Evil 

Author : Andrew Taylor 

Published: 2000

The third (?and final) part of the Marwood trilogy concerning the intertwining lives of James Marwood and Kate/Jane Lovett in London after the Great Fire.


16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

fiction