The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner ( paperback)
£8.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration. Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.
Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer.
Her seven-year-old son, Jackson. As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line - until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.
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The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer ( Paperback, May 2019)
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“Wonderfully dense and wise, a page turner that succeeds at both character and ideas. It felt true to life “( Chimimanda Adichie)
Meg Wolitzer is a prize winning author, a New Yorker and a regular on the US bestseller lists. Her other works include The Wife, The Interestings and The Ten Year Nap. Her great strength is her acutely observed, individual characters.
A novel about ambition, women, friendship and finding your place in the world..
Paperback from May 2019.
Milkman, by Anna Burns
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Longlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize.
Anna Burns is originally from Belfast but is now based in England.
Milkman is “ a story of hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences “
Powerful, stream of consciousness prose that feels exhausting but gets under your skin as an astute account of Northern Ireland’s social landscape, and ultimately delivers humour, and insight -it's quite brilliant.
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson ( paperback, 2019)
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Longlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize.
A debut novel, a story of family and identity.
Gretel grew up on an isolated canal boat, hasn’t seen her mother since she was sixteen and now with a phone call from a hospital, she is thrown back to the memories of language and landscape.
A gender fluid retelling of Oedipus Rex. Available as paperback from February 2019
Try this if you like Iris Murdoch, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter..
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
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Previous BPS Book Club choice
An emotional read, a story of one woman in Nigeria and her extended family, where personal tragedy unfolds against the backdrop of turbulent 1980’s Nigeria.
Very readable, her prose is a pleasure but packs a tremendous punch.
