21st Century Fiction – Page 4

The Woman who Walked into the Sea by Mark Douglas-Home

A tense tale set in coastal Scotland where enquiries about the mystery of a baby’s abandonment and her mother’s suicide stir up trouble

A book very much of our time where questions of authorship and cultural appropriation are rife – an interesting read

A book of boys and baseball which rolls along at a fair old pace, with humour, cracking dialogue and scrapes and incidents galore

Little Deaths is a book about character and about how what we see does not necessarily represent everything we think we know about someone

A book which reveals itself gradually, uncoiling before us while being told through the eyes of our narrator, Cadence, but can we trust her?

A powerful book that will stay with me a long time for all of the right reasons – thought-provoking, shrewd and frightening

I loved this book: the atmosphere, the people, the story, the pacing, the conclusion. Do I need to say more?

A book which is ostensibly about family but has a deeper discussion at its core involving humans and the way we treat other animals

A book about life, regrets and choices which has humour and warmth and prompts discussion about how life can best be lived

A book for our times, Mad Honey is a story of people, divisions, assumptions and wrong perceptions, with a murder trial at the centre of it