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John Lanchester is a man closely engaged in following the modern sociopolitical landscape, and in The Wall he attempts to imagine what it would be like if taken to its absolute extreme.
The story begins by presenting us with an island nation, England, which built a giant wall around itself as a means of protection against a dying world.
Enter John Kavanagh, a new Defender of the wall, tasked with keeping the desperate souls outside from getting in, under penance of death if he were to fail.
Ruth Ware’s career may not have started long ago, but she has so far maintained a high standard for herself, one she does her absolute best to live up to in her fifth novel, The Turn of the Key.
In it, we follow the story of Rowan Caine who took up a “too good to be true” nanny job at a luxurious estate, only to end up being accused of murdering a child. From her prison cell, she writes to her lawyer, trying to unravel to complexity of all she has been through, consistently adamant she is no killer… but then who is?
Adam O’Fallon Price may not have begun his literary career a long time ago, but he is certainly setting some high standards for his future works with his latest publication, The Hotel Neversink.
This saga traces the lives of the Sikorsky family members through their ownership of the titular hotel.
As generations go by we witness the building of a legacy, as well as the decades-long search for the culprit behind a young boy’s disappearance.
Catherine Chung has surprised many people with the publication of her popular first novel, Forgotten Country, and with her second novel, The Tenth Muse, she returns with another rather unique premise.
The novel follows a woman by the name of Katherine, who attempts to carve a space for herself in the man-dominated academic world of mathematics, while also searching for her real parents, and ultimately, what secrets her family might hold from her.
Tim Mason has for a long time dedicated his talents to being a playwright, and has only recently made the very welcome transition to fiction novels.
His first publication for adults, a historical thriller titled The Darwin Affair, takes us to 1860s London where an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria and the murder of a petty thief lead Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field on the trail of a conspiracy, somehow revolving around Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
