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Cover image for That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz by Malachy Tallack

That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz by Malachy Tallack: Never too late to change

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I’d not come across Malachy Tallack before his second novel, That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, popped up on NetGalley. Tallack’s a singer-songwriter as well as an established writer of books about his beloved Shetland. The blurb promised a story about a man who has spent almost his entire life in one place who finds unexpected friendship […]

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Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans: ‘He sounds like a pongo, but he’s the full screw’  

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I was thrilled when I spotted a new Lissa Evans on social media, knowing that not only would I be in for a treat but that it would be a cheery one. I wondered if Small Bomb at Dimperley might follow the characters I’d become so fond of in V for Victory and Old Baggage

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Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey: A love story

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I jumped at the chance to read Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Our London Lives, getting stuck in as soon as it dropped through my letterbox. Hickey writes beautifully crafted thoughtful novels, often from the perspective of women. The Narrow Land, her last one, told the story of Edward Hopper’s marriage from his wife’s point-of-view while The

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