March 2016
Ten Days is by Gillian Slovo. It's 4 a.m. and dawn is about to break over
the Lovelace estate. Cathy Mason drags herself out of bed as she swelters in
her overheated bedroom - the council still haven't turned the radiators off
despite temperatures reaching the 30s. In a kitchen across London, Home
Secretary Peter Whiteley enjoys the tea that his security detail left for him
before he joins his driver and heads to Parliament, whilst his new police
chief, Joshua Yares, clears his head for his first day with a run. All three
will have reasons to recollect this morning as their lives collide over ten
days they will never forget.
April 2016
'The time has come to tell you what happened ...'
A man retires to a sun-baked Turkish town for a quiet life. What he finds is a
world of suspicion, paranoia and violence. In a community of shady local
officials, corrupt businessmen and a crooked police force, our narrator's life
spins into chaos and criminality. The town makes a murderer of him. The
question is, who did he kill? Endgame is by Ahmet Altan.
May 2016
Nothing else comes so I set the notebook beside
me. What else is here? I ask myself and listen. This section of stream purls
and riffles amid small stones. What word might be made for what I hear ...Above
the Waterfall is by Ron Rash and is the story of Sheriff Les Clary. A
man on the verge of retirement, he is plunged into deep and dangerous waters by
one final case. A case that will draw him to the lyrical beauty of his
surroundings and, in doing so, force him to come to terms with his own past.
Echoing the heartbreaking beauty of William Faulkner and the spiritual
isolation of Michel Faber, Above the Waterfall is as poetic as it is haunting.
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