The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier for #DDMreadingweek
No 417 The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
Claire Messud’s gracefully written novel The Emperor’s Children, is incredibly readable and entertaining but on a formidable scale. Set for the most part in New York City in 2000, it focuses on the social and personal lives of a group of young affluent New York professionals as they navigate a series of personal and political…
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No 418 Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Frank Wynne
Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre (translated by the brilliant Frank Wynne) was my first experience with this celebrated French crime writer but it won’t be my last as Blood Wedding, a tale of obsession and revenge, is one of the best crime novels I’ve read in a long time, thanks to a thrilling plot and…
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore for #BrianMoore100
No 419 Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Motherless Brooklyn was my first encounter with Letham – who I know is considered a bit of a wunderkind of American literature – and I doubt it will be my last as I very much enjoyed this riff on a classic hard-boiled detective novel. The book opens as these genre pieces are wont to do,…
