Partita — Barbara Kingsolver’s virtuoso novel of loss, social class and music
A dazzling follow-up to ‘Demon Copperhead’ plunges us into the grief, yearning and disappointments of a once-promising pianist in rural Tennessee
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Financial Times
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2026
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Stations by Louise Kennedy — love, friendship and the complexities of youth
The ‘Trespasses’ author captures with fino dry wit the path of would-be lovers who leave 1980s Ireland for London, and the damaging legacy of conflict and family back home
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Dodge City — Patrick deWitt’s wild, witty road trip across 1960s America
An amphetamine-fuelled, draft-dodging journey becomes a portrait of both a family and a nation in crisis
