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We’re here to help you find that book that you can’t put down, the book you’ll push on all your friends, the book that’ll change your life.

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17th Oct 17

Congratulations to George Saunders and Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2017

A truly original and brave choice by the Man Booker Prize judges this year. Lincoln in the Bardo is a challenging but beautiful and utterly original novel that deserves to be read. Read our full review here.

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Legend has it that 1967 was a marvellous year for Legend has it that 1967 was a marvellous year for London’s most swinging residents, whether it be getting stoned in Hyde Park or parking their minis in the city’s first multi-storey car park. Boho glamour for some but a decidedly post-war landscape for everyone else, exuding a greyness and reserve left over from the austerity years. In Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett, we’re transported to a furrier’s workshop just off Garlick Hill, EC4. Here we meet the outwardly dull and fastidious Mr F, the man the 1960’s forgot, whose hidden desires are set to ignite a nightmare of rage and shame. See link in bio for our review of a book that deserves a place on the literary lists of great London novels | 📷 @serpentstail | #Bookstoker 

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