Fresh picks for Autumn
It may be the last week of the summer holidays but fear not, there’s some great books to take you from summer to autumn. There’s some brilliant adventures coming your way and some excellent translated fiction which we’re particularly excited about here.
So, where do you want to go first? A September holiday to Spain, Shetland, a river bend just outside of London or the open seas….
Sept 1st
Spain
All This I Will Give to You
Dolores Redondo (Author), Michael Meigs (Translator)
And so starts the trail which leads Manuel deep into one of Spain’s most powerful and guarded families. Collecting the pieces of Álvaro’s past, his double life, and his mysterious death is not going to be easy. In fact it’s going to be the most dangerous thing Manuel has ever done or is ever likely to do.
Sept 6th
Shetland
Wild Fire Ann Cleeves
Oh dear – the last Shetland novel! But what a final novel it is. Rest assured fans of the series of books and TV will not be disappointed. You just have to remember that all good things come to an end and this is a fitting end for the characters. Having said that, there’s a whole series of books to enjoy and the boxsets of the drama so far. It’s a moment to savour, shed a tear about and then remember all the great cases Perez has worked on in this stunning Scottish landscape.
Sept 6th
London set
Transcription – Kate Atkinson
A Kate Atkinson novel is the best way to get over those end of summer blues and embrace the cold spells with a new and glorious novel by this great novelist. It’s set in London in the 1940s when a young girl is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. The world Kate re-imagines and recreates throws up one surprise after another and the scene setting is acute and immersive.
It’s got the Atkinson shine and brilliance this one. Funny too. Some great lines to quote and a treat for all those yet to read it..
Sept 20th
London
The Clockmaker’s Daughter, Kate Morton
Be swept away to a mysterious old house on the banks of the Thames. Never the phrase ‘ if walls had ears’ been more apt. In this story, a number of people encounter this house over the years and there are stories in its walls which come out gradually to reveal a web of intrigue and mystery. Gloriously written and a house ready to spill its most heartbreaking secrets…and dispel the rumours…to reveal the truth of what really happened and why its walls have ears and now a voice which demands to be heard…
I am a huge fan of Kate Morton as everyone knows but this is particularly good and I SO want to go to that house now!
Sept 26th
The Open Sea
Lights on the Sea by Miquel Reina
Set amongst fantastical new territory, this is a story about a couple holding on for dear life as their world takes an extraordinary fall…
On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a retired couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Then, on the eve of eviction from the most beautiful and dangerously unstable perch in the area, they’re uprooted by a violent storm. The Grapeses and their home take a free-fall slide into the white-capped sea and float away.
As the past that once moored them recedes and disappears, they are taken away from the land and towards a new horizon, where a light will reveal a new way of living
There’s more to come from where this lovely lot came from….Stay tuned and be ready to catch Autumn’s new arrivals…
