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The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
Melanie Wood 9/12/25 Melanie Wood 9/12/25

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

A beach holiday provokes dark memories

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The Queen of Thieves by Johan Rundberg
MG Whitmarsh 9/4/25 MG Whitmarsh 9/4/25

The Queen of Thieves by Johan Rundberg

Mika pits her wits against a master thief

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The Night Raven by Johan Rundberg
MG Whitmarsh 8/23/25 MG Whitmarsh 8/23/25

The Night Raven by Johan Rundberg

A sharp-eyed orphan teams up with a gruff detective.

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Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante
MG Whitmarsh 8/22/25 MG Whitmarsh 8/22/25

Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante

A collection of short columns for The Guardian

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Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä
MG Whitmarsh 8/16/25 MG Whitmarsh 8/16/25

Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä

Island observations

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The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
MG Whitmarsh 4/11/23 MG Whitmarsh 4/11/23

The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

Horror on the farm

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The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
MG Whitmarsh 11/29/22 MG Whitmarsh 11/29/22

The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen

Rural life on a weather-beaten island

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Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
Melanie Whitmarsh 1/21/22 Melanie Whitmarsh 1/21/22

Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au

An elegant, thoughtful novel of memory and art

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The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky
Melanie Wood 1/11/22 Melanie Wood 1/11/22

The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky

Sci-fi writers turn to detective fiction

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How Do You Live? by Genzaburō Yoshino
Melanie Whitmarsh 10/27/21 Melanie Whitmarsh 10/27/21

How Do You Live? by Genzaburō Yoshino

A winsome manual for living

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Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe
MG Whitmarsh 10/6/21 MG Whitmarsh 10/6/21

Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe

Blurring the line between fact and fiction

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The Door by Magda Szabó
Melanie Whitmarsh 9/19/21 Melanie Whitmarsh 9/19/21

The Door by Magda Szabó

An intricate character study

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The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Melanie Whitmarsh 9/7/21 Melanie Whitmarsh 9/7/21

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

A raw, magnetic portrait of reason unspooling

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The Kites by Romain Gary
Melanie Whitmarsh 4/24/21 Melanie Whitmarsh 4/24/21

The Kites by Romain Gary

A sombre, beautiful portrayal of human nature

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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Melanie Whitmarsh 3/7/21 Melanie Whitmarsh 3/7/21

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Dark, funny, and winsome

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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
MG Whitmarsh 12/9/20 MG Whitmarsh 12/9/20

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

A bleak tale of loneliness and marginalisation

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Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
MG Whitmarsh 11/17/20 MG Whitmarsh 11/17/20

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

An extraordinary Venus fly trap of a novel; enter at your peril

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Journeys by Stefan Zweig
MG Whitmarsh 10/6/20 MG Whitmarsh 10/6/20

Journeys by Stefan Zweig

Travel essays: 1902-1940

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Daughters by Lucy Fricke
Melanie Whitmarsh 9/23/20 Melanie Whitmarsh 9/23/20

Daughters by Lucy Fricke

A caper across Europe on the road to death

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The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo
MG Whitmarsh 7/27/20 MG Whitmarsh 7/27/20

The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo

Murder and superstition in northern Spain

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