Frank Sapienza gives us a modern moral thriller about Dr Jon Morrison who is given a choice to help his son but at what ethical cost?
Category Archives: 21st Century Fiction
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
A tale of three sisters, starting towards the end point and leading us through their lives with all the ups and downs, upsets and triumphs.
The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths
A Ruth Galloway mystery which is set at the start of the pandemic and which involves a number of mysterious deaths of women
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
A great children’s book but more than that, a great story book, about Feo and her wolves, and fighting the enemy intent on her destruction
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The story of Sam and Sadie principally, and a friendship that endures rifts and crises, set in the world of computer programming and gaming
The Cows [Don’t Follow The Herd] by Dawn O’Porter
A book for our times, where the traditional roles and perceptions of women are discussed through the lives of Tara, Cam and Stella
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
A coming-of-age book about a boy with extraordinary abilities who embarks on a quest to find his father when he disappears
The Sisters by Claire Douglas
When Abi is offered the chance of a new life, she hopes it will fill the gap left by the death of her twin, but will it give her that?
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
A novel based on history and “The Last Duchess”, a poem by Robert Browning – intense and dark, and highly evocative of Renaissance Italy
Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The best book that I have read this year – a funny, warm, unique book with a biting message about how women should carve their own path