A Spotlight On: The Costa Book Awards

After much anticipation, today’s the day of the announcement of the Costa Prize. Last year Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End took the...

First Love by Gwendoline Riley

First Love tells the story of Neve, and her older husband Edwyn. Theirs is a marriage rooted in threats and humiliation. Page after page...

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