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I love books that reimagine a story that is well known, challenging reader's assumptions about the characters or the circumstances they find themselves in, while also standing on its own for readers that haven't read the inspiration. JAMES brings Huck Finn's companion to life, giving him wit, intelligence, and agency. I read it twice, back-to-back. Easily my favorite read of 2025!
'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
James by Percival Everett is a profound and ferociously funny meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love, which reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Full disclosure! I know Jenny Newman and I have always admired the sharpness and boldness of her writing. She is a powerful storyteller and for me, when I was at last able to read her new novel it was an electric moment. In the Blood is a dramatic and unsettling story about a young girl growing up in a decrepit country house just after the second world war. As an evacuee in Wales Jackie is lodged with a huntsman and becomes more hound than girl. The extraordinary empathic link that young Jackie shares with horse and hound and fox and with the natural world is utterly persuasive and beautifully evoked. Newman’s source of inspiration is the magical, medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The three hunts described in the novel create a structure that is both realistic and symbolic. The outcome will keep you reading, perched on the…
North Wales, 1945.
Twelve-year-old Jackie is an evacuee, Iolo, her host, is touched by Gwyn ap
Nudd, the Welsh god of the chase, and from him Jackie learns hunting's ancient
secret lore. She knows every hound in his pack, every stream and covert in
their valley, and by sleeping in their kennels, understands their dreams. By
the war's end she sees herself as more hound than girl.
When her mother
comes to reclaim her, Jackie is transplanted to a derelict estate in
Westmorland. Its owner, Major Wetheral, is the local Master of Foxhouds. But his
English way of hunting flouts…
