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Books to Look Out For in September 2025: Part Two

The second batch of September fiction begins with a novel heading straight to my books of the year list. I snapped up Pick a Colour having greatly enjoyed Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Giller-Prize-winning short story collection, How to Pronounce Knife. Her new one is set over one day in a nail salon run by Ning who, in […]

Cover image for The Two Roberts by Damian Barr

Books to Look Out For in September 2025: Part One

4 August 2025 / 18 Comments

Unsurprisingly, given that publishers have Christmas in their sights come September, a couple of the month’s titles struck me as on their way to the bestseller lists including the first which I’ve already read. The Two Roberts grew out of a fascination with Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun after Damian Barr spotted a social media

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