41 Book Review
Recommended new books available now from the Kingsbridge Harbour Bookshop ‘A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA’
by Isabel Allende We were very excited when we were told that Isabelle Allende had a new book due for publication in 2020 and it has proved another winner! You can always trust Allende to write strong, memorable characters in an historically accurate and compassionate way. In this book, Victor Dalmau is a young doctor caught up in the Spanish Civil War. Together with his sister-in-law and the pianist Roser, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. When opportunity to seek refuge arises, they board a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda to Chile, the promised ‘long petal of sea and wine and snow’. As the journey across the sea progresses, we meet a group of people who, over the course of four generations, are destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world.
‘THE FIVE’
by Hallie Rubenhold We sometimes take prize winning books with a pinch of salt, but this winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction is an intriguing and completely new look at the infamous murders that took place in Whitechapel all those years ago. Rubenhold explores the lives of the women and the facts of the case in forensic detail. We were all taken aback by this book, long overdue and fascinating.
‘THE ISLAND’
by Ragnar Jonasson This is an unusual concept that has worked very well. The Island is the second book in a trilogy that is working towards its beginning. Jonasson, who started translating all of the Agatha Christie’s novels into Icelandic when he was just 17 years old, has created Detective Inspector Hulda Hermanns- dottir, who is sent to the isolated island of Ellidaey to investigate a disappearance and finds haunting similarities to an old case - the murder of a young woman ten years ago. This book also sent us straight to the first in the series ‘The Darkness’ and we are truly looking forward to the new hardback in April ‘The Mist.’
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‘THE PEAR AFFAIR’ BY Judith Eagle When Penelope Magnificent’s awful parents tell her they’re taking a trip to Paris, she surprises them by begging to go along. Nell is usually content to avoid her money-obsessed father and her fashion-focussed mother, but Paris holds something very dear to her... her old au pair Perrine - Pear - lives there. Pear used to write to Nell every week promising to come to her rescue but recently the letters have stopped... Arriving in Paris Nell is determined to find Pear... but no one has seen her at her last known address. Luckily she befriends the hotel bellboy who introduces her to the world of tunnels underneath the city, and together they set out to find Pear, whilst uncovering an extraordinary mystery of their own. Merci, Judith Eagle!
At last! The final instalment of the Booker-winning trilogy is here and what a whopper! You can pre-order with us and get £5 off and a free tote bag to lift all 912 pages of ‘The Mirror and The Light’ by Hilary Mantel. We couldn’t put it better than the author herself. “There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.”
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