A disillusioned medical student encounters an older patient who takes him to task over his attitude, wanting to alter it for the better
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The Antigen: The Seed of Corruption Part 2 by A.I. Fabler
Fabler holds a mirror up to the world, using what he sees to write a taut thriller where good people try to expose those who would control
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
Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls by R.S. Downie
Ruso’s life as a doctor is busy. Add rescued slave, disappearing girls, family, pedants and dogs and it gets interesting – and troubling
At a Time Like This by Catherine Dunne
A book about four friends, set in Ireland, centring on how they are all there for each other – but are there secrets that could divide them?
Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
A book very much of our time where questions of authorship and cultural appropriation are rife – an interesting read
Sour Apples: A Novel For Those Who Hate To Read by Paul Jantzen
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 by Emma Flint
Little Deaths is a book about character and about how what we see does not necessarily represent everything we think we know about someone
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
A book which reveals itself gradually, uncoiling before us while being told through the eyes of our narrator, Cadence, but can we trust her?
The Night Garden: Of My Mother by Sandra Tyler
Sandra Tyler in her memoir has crafted something which at times is hard to read in its candour but whose essence is deeply touching