FANTASTIC FICTION – Escapes to other places and other times

Sarah Moss is a teacher at The University od Warwick Writing Programme. (http://www.sarahmoss.org/about/) Signs of Lost Children is her 4th novel to date. It is a continuation of the story contained in her book Bodies of Light. It begins in Victorian England. The summary is as follows. Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark […]

Anne Enright (born 11 October 1962, http://sbr.lanark.co.uk/wp-content/images/The-Green-Road-Anne-Enright.jpg) is an Irish author. She has published novels, short stories, essays, and one non-fiction book. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award

Lawrence Osborne (http://www.lawrenceosborne.net/) is the author of the novel Ania Malina, a book about Paris, Paris Dreambook, the essay collection The Poisoned Embrace, and a controversial book about autism called American Normal. He has also written three travel books published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux between 2004 and 2009: a book about wine, The Accidental Connoisseur,

Tessa Hadley (http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/T.Hadley) is the author of five highly praised novels, Accidents in the Home, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train and Clever Girl. She has also written two collections of stories, Sunstroke and Married Love. She lives in London and is

Kent Haruf (http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/kent-haruf#/,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf) was an award winning writer from Colorado. This posthumously published novel explores mature love in small-town America. Like all his work, the prose is precise and calm but the emotional strength is very affecting. Addie Moore lives in the small town of Holt, Colorado. One day she pays an unexpected visit to

Lauren Groff (http://laurengroff.com/) is a young American novelist and short story writer. She has had stories published in  the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Five Points, and Ploughshares, and the anthologies Best New American Voices 2008, and Best American Short Stories 2007, 2010 and 2014 editions. Fates and Furies (2015) starts with honeymoon sex on

The prolific author Nora Roberts (http://www.noraroberts.com/) has been prolific again for the 4th time this year alone. (The total number of her novels including those written under the author name J.D. Robb amount to over 200 novels. Her readers fall upon each new work like a thirsty cat leaps to a dish of cool water in

Harlan Coben (http://www.harlancoben.com/), born January 4, 1962) is an American author of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past (such as murders, fatal accidents, etc.) and often have multiple plot twists. In Coben’s series of ‘Myron Bolitar’ novels the setting is in and

We live in times (2008-2015 >) of swingeing public sector cuts. Town hall chiefs are forced by central government to bring the hatchet down on local government spending. Public libraries have taken a hammering the length and breadth of Britain, a trend carefully documented in a blog by Ian Anstice available here http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/. The nostalgic whimpering of politicians,