A new twist on a familiar character; this book puts the playwright inside the story for a change. It follows Shakespeare as he matures into an adult, falls in love, and gradually becomes the person he is meant to be. Despite this, a large part of the narrative is told through the eyes of hisContinue reading “‘Hamnet’ by Maggie O’Farrell”
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‘The Kingdoms’ by Natasha Pulley
To be published May 20th 2021… Joe Tournier steps off a train in London. His ticket shows that he came from Edinburgh, but he doesn’t remember ever having been there and he doesn’t remember getting on the train or a single minute of the journey itself. Actually he doesn’t remember anything. All he knows isContinue reading “‘The Kingdoms’ by Natasha Pulley”
‘She Who Became The Sun’ by Shelley Parker-Chan
To be published July 22nd 2021… Zhu-Chongba is marked for greatness. But then he dies. It is no simple thing for his sister, marked for nothing, to take his identity and, with it, his fate. At first she is driven by desperation, by survival. Then by want. And later, by desire. First a monk, thenContinue reading “‘She Who Became The Sun’ by Shelley Parker-Chan”
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