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The Disappearers by Marlon James

Seven men rehearse a gay prison play in 1988 Kingston. One night a crowd arrives, and two of the cast are never seen again. Marlon James has written the longest, hardest and most formally daring book on the Booker Prize 2026 longlist.

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry

A woman who arranges fake food in historic houses finds a king nobody wanted to remember. Rebecca Perry's debut is the quiet triumph of the Booker Prize 2026 longlist.

The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

An honest, spoiler-free review of The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, a 1940s Mexican domestic noir about a con man, a proud spinster, and her scheming niece.

A Fortune of Sand by Ruta Sepetys

A thoughtful, spoiler-free review of A Fortune of Sand by Ruta Sepetys, a 1927 Detroit mystery about a designing heiress, a secret artists' residency, and vanishing women.

Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson

Sadeqa Johnson's Keeper of Lost Children illuminates the forgotten Brown Baby Plan through three compelling perspectives. This comprehensive review examines the novel's strengths, themes, and place in contemporary historical fiction.

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Artemis by Andy Weir

Jazz Bashara checks her bank balance every day like it might have grown on its own. She needs 416,922 slugs. Not four hundred thousand, not half a million. That precise figure. She will not tell anyone why, and the answer, when it finally arrives, is the best thing in the book.

From Book Clubs to BookTok: How Reading Communities Have Moved Online

See how book clubs evolved into BookTok, Goodreads, Discord, and other online spaces where readers share recommendations, reactions, and opinions.

Promise Me Never by Liv Constantine

A famous novelist orders his wife's dinner without asking. The first wife tells him never to do that again. The second wife thanks him for being thoughtful. Constantine builds an entire novel out of the gap between those two women, and the gap is where the danger lives.

Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley

Four people narrate this novel and every one of them is labelled: The Help, The Wife, The Star, The Friend. There is no chapter marked The Detective. Miss Marple is watched for four hundred pages and never once given the microphone, and that decision turns an authorised Christie continuation into something genuinely strange.

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