Fiction

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – October 2023

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets. Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide’s mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the dead.  

When We Were Birds

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
When We Were Birds
Paperback

Her Fixer-Upper

Emily Kerr
Her Fixer-Upper
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – September 2023

The encounter between 87-year-old Kent coast resident Edie, who is in the early stages of dementia, and Jonah, a traumatised Malawian migrant hiding in her barn. An unlikely companionship that helps them make sense of their worlds even as they struggle to understand each other.

Crossing Over

Ann Morgan
Crossing Over
Paperback

By the Book

Jasmine Guillory
By the Book
Paperback

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – August 2023

Two women. Two eggs. One switch. A dual narrative novel about a seemingly impossible situation: two women, Katherine and Tess, find out after pregnancy that their eggs were mistakenly switched during in vitro fertilization (IVF). For Katherine, the news is her worst nightmare realized. For Tess, the news is a seed of hope.

Hold My Girl

Charlene Carr
Hold My Girl
Paperback

London, With Love

Sarra Manning
London, With Love
Paperback

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