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The Last Citadel 

Author : Kevin Ashman 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: A flooded world where people are confined to a citadel with a ring of outlying towers connected by causeways which are only revealed once a month when the waters recede for a day. ...

Synopsis 47 words


20 Jun '15  

20 Jun '15

fiction

Snowblind 

Author : Ragnar Jonasson 

Published: 2015

Synopsis extract: Icelandic Crime. ...

Synopsis 27 words


13 Jun '15  

13 Jun '15

fiction

Elizabeth Is Missing 

Author : Emma Healey 

Published: 2014

Synopsis extract: An account of the development of a woman's Altzheimers seen through her eyes as she struggles to remain on top of things and uncover the mystery of what has happened to her friend Elizabeth (this is not a crime story)

Synopsis 40 words


05 Jun '15  

5 Jun '15

fiction

This Changes Everything 
Capitalism vs. the Climate

Author : Naomi Klein 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


02 Jun '15

2 Jun '15

non-fiction

Into the Wild 

Author : Jon Krakauer 

Published: 1998

Synopsis extract: True account of Chris McCandless's travels from college graduate to death in wilds of Alaska from starvation four years later

Synopsis 20 words


26 Apr '15  

26 Apr '15

non-fiction

History of the Rain 

Author : Niall Williams 

Published: 2014

Synopsis extract: Told from point of view of a young woman with a debilitating (?bone marrow/blood) condition story of her parents and grandparents and life in a West Clare village on the banks of the Shannon. ...

Synopsis 37 words


12 Apr '15  

12 Apr '15

fiction

Elephant Moon 

Author : John Sweeney 

Published: 2012

Synopsis extract: Schoolteacher escorts a group of anglo-burmese children fleeing the invading Japanese overland from Rangoon to India. ...

Synopsis 30 words


28 Feb '15  

28 Feb '15

fiction

Cypress Grove 

Author : James Sallis 

Published: 2003

Synopsis extract: Turner ex US detective hiding away from demons in retirement in the Southern USA is called on to help by the local cops with an unusual murder

Synopsis 27 words


26 Jan '15  

26 Jan '15

fiction

A Swarming of Bees 

Author : Theresa Tomlinson 

Published: 2012

Synopsis extract: Synod of Whitby and yellow plague as experienced by a 'herbwife'.

Synopsis 11 words


22 Jan '15  

22 Jan '15

fiction

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau 

Author : Graeme Macrae Burnet 

Published: 2014

Synopsis extract: Manfred Bauman lives in a french town on the german swiss border and is a social misfit. ...

Synopsis 50 words


16 Jan '15  

16 Jan '15

fiction

The Physic Garden 

Author : Catherine Czerkawska 

Published: 2012

Synopsis extract: A poor gardener for Glasgow college at start of 19th century develops a relationship with a young professor which affects both their lives.

Synopsis 23 words


08 Jan '15  

8 Jan '15

fiction

The Photographer's Wife 

Author : Nick Alexander 

Published: 2014

Synopsis extract: Childhood in the blitz connects through events in the 50s and 60s to life today (2010) as daughter uncovers truths about her famous father.

Synopsis 23 words


14 Dec '14  

14 Dec '14

fiction

The Empress Emerald 

Author : J.G. Harlond 

Published: 2014

Synopsis extract: Leo born about 1900 in India with Russian father and Indian mother stolen as a baby in India then brought up in a British orphanage and taken into employ of British Secret Service. ...

Synopsis 63 words


27 Nov '14  

27 Nov '14

fiction

The Making of a Counter Culture 

Author : Theodore Roszak 

Published: 1969

Synopsis extract: Starts as a discussion of the meaning of the rise of youth rebellion in the 60's and ends as a critique of scientific objectivity (which is then explored in more detail in Where The wasteland Ends)

Synopsis 36 words


05 Nov '14  

5 Nov '14

non-fiction

The Wake 

Author : Paul Kingsnorth 

Published: 2014

Synopsis extract: Buccmaster leads a war band of Greene Men against the French invaders in 1066-68.

Synopsis 14 words


02 Nov '14  

2 Nov '14

fiction

A History of the World in Twelve Maps 

Author : Jerry Brotton 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Each of the 12 maps is used to centre a discussion on aspects of world-view at the time it was produced

Synopsis 20 words


15 Oct '14  

15 Oct '14

non-fiction

Only Planet 

Author : Ed Gillespie 

Published: 2014

Synopsis extract: Travelling around the world by surface transport with reflections on environmentalism

Synopsis 11 words


11 Oct '14  

11 Oct '14

non-fiction

A Place of Strangers 

Author : Geoffrey Seed 

Published: 2009

Synopsis extract: Spy, history, family mystery. ...

Synopsis 31 words


27 Sep '14  

27 Sep '14

fiction

The Misremembered Man 

Author : Christina McKenna 

Published: 2008

Synopsis extract: Oirish tale drawing on the experience of the awful catholic orphanages and the devastation they created. ...

Synopsis 20 words


24 Sep '14  

24 Sep '14

fiction

Lion Heart 

Author : Justin Cartwright 

Published: 2013

Synopsis extract: Young man gets involved with woman in Jerusalem and researching the story of Richard 1st return from the crusades.

Synopsis 19 words


23 Aug '14  

23 Aug '14

fiction

The Mask of Anarchy 

Author : P.B. Shelley 

No summary or synopsis available


18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

non-fiction

Skios 

Author : Michale Frayn 

Published: 2012

Synopsis extract: Swapped identities at a conference on a greek island

Synopsis 9 words


16 Aug '14  

16 Aug '14

fiction

Power of the Dog 

Author : Thomas Savage 

Published: 1967

Synopsis extract: A cowboy in Montana dealing with his repressed homosexuality in the worst possible way by taking it out on others. ...

Synopsis 29 words


20 Jul '14  

20 Jul '14

fiction

The Goldfinch 

Author : Donna Tartt 

Published: 2013

Synopsis extract: Boy looses mother in bomb attack on NY Art Gallery but gains a painting which then haunts him until adulthood

Synopsis 20 words


04 Jul '14  

4 Jul '14

fiction

Crossing 

Author : Andrew Xia Fukuda 

Synopsis extract: Chinese immigrant boy in America school as outsider. ...

Synopsis 16 words


01 Jul '14  

1 Jul '14

fiction