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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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Nobel Prize for literature goes to Patrick who???

I am embarrassed to say that I’ve never heard of Patrick Modiano, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. This seems to happen quite often with me and Nobel Prize winners.

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The most original debut we’ve read this year, Dead The most original debut we’ve read this year, Dead Lucky by Connor Hutchinson tells the story of twenty-something Jamie, a funeral embalmer leading a chaotic double life in a Manchester suburb. Although dedicated to his job and in love with his fabulous girlfriend, Rebecca, Jamie is harbouring a secret which threatens to capsize his life. Addicted to gambling, on the edge of financial ruin and under pressure from Rebecca to purchase their first home together, Jamie needs to pull off a major win. By turns darkly funny and affecting, Dead Lucky invites us into the mind of a young man, who unable to share his troubles with those who love him, tells them to the corpses on his embalming table instead. See link in bio for our review | 📷 @littlebrownbookgroup_uk | #Bookstoker 

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‘I live with the people I create and it has always ‘I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen’. - Carson McCullers. 

An intense and striking image of the brilliant McCullers. Photo: Irving Penn, 1950. Copyright @condenast | #Bookstoker 

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