September Blockbusters

In the literary calendar September is typically a month for the Big Releases and 2014 had been no different. Here’s a list of blockbusters available this month.


The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Our reviewer writes, ‘ The Bone Clocks has a clear protagonist: the rebellious, clairvoyant Holly Sykes, whose life is thrown into tumult from a young age by the disembodied voices of the ‘Radio People’ and the enigmatic Ms Constantin.’

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The Children Act by Ian McEwan

Our reviewer writes, ‘In the opening scenes we encounter a fascinating array of ethical conundrums: a husband proposes an open marriage to satisfy his sexual needs; the parents of conjoined twins refuse the surgery to separate them, even though together they will die; a devoutly religious man fights with his estranged wife over the fate of their daughters.’

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The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

Our reviewer writes, ‘Set in London in 1922 – a city still reeling after World War I and in the midst of a rapidly transforming social order – Sarah Waters’s sixth novel addresses the crumbling prestige of the genteel class and the transitioning positions and frustrations of women. … Waters’s intricately weaved and suspense-filled plot ultimately makes for an engaging and satisfying read. ’

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This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner

Our reviewer writes, ‘It would be misleading to say this is an enjoyable read, but it ripples with the strength of Garner’s prose: she portrays the courtroom vividly, bringing the parading barristers, Farquharson’s indignant sisters and string of frustrated expert witnesses all piercingly to life. Over the days that I read this book I felt like I sat there with her, behind the scrimmage of journalists, a sullen, sunken Farquharson just beyond my direct gaze.’

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Personal by Lee Child

This new heart stopping, nail biting book in Lee Child’s number-one bestselling series takes Jack Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it’s personal.

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How to be Both by Ali Smith

Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, How To Be Both is a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a renaissance artist of the 1460s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life’s givens get given a second chance.

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J by Howard Jacobson

Set in the future, a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going.

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Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett

Our reviewer writes, ‘Reading Sonya Hartnett’s Golden Boys is unnerving, an experience akin to treading deep water. Everything above the surface appears calm, but there’s the lingering sensation that anything could be lurking below. And as I made my way through this novel, my heart was in my throat, the tension palpable.’

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The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Our reviewer writes, ‘The prophecy in Macbeth is fulfilled when, after so much murderous blood has been spilt, he sees no sense in stopping, which according to Martin Amis is the precise nature of the Holocaust. Opening with a witch’s cauldron and climaxing on Walpurgis Night, 1943, The Zone of Interest is an ambitious project that takes us back to the concentration camps of Auschwitz.’

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Personal

Lee Child

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