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A Spot of Bother follows a Curious Incident

1:22pm Thursday 6th March 2008

George Hall is 57, happily enjoying his retirement building a studio in the garden where he will paint. But then, as he stands in a fitting room in Allders in Croydon, trying on a suit to wear to Bob Green's funeral, he discovers a lesion on his hip and immediately fears the worst.

Hoping for a happy ending

1:25pm Thursday 7th February 2008

Atmospheric, claustrophobic and, as it reaches its climax, unputdownable, Affinity by Sarah Waters is the story of Margaret Prior.

Making the ordinary extraordinary

12:13pm Thursday 10th January 2008

RUTH is the friend Ann has been searching for all her life without realising it, and now Ruth is dying at the age of 43.

No burnt offerings with this month's title

12:11pm Thursday 6th December 2007

THIS month's book in our new Book Group is Nigel Slater's Toast - the Story of a Boy's Hunger.

There’s no mystery – it’s just great writing

1:47pm Thursday 1st November 2007

THE exquisite pain of an impossible first love lies at the heart of Sue Gee's The Mysteries of Glass, a novel long-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction.


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