August goes to university as a track star poised for success, and hoping to get out from under his overbearing sisters influence. There he meets Segun, who is openly gay, which in Nigeria is illegal, and he can't stop thinking about him. While their love blooms, August feel unable to come out, under pressure from …
Continue reading And Then He Sang A Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
Jane Start is a music star who had a hit ten years ago, but who has had middling success since. When the writer of her original song, Jonesy, contacts her about performing at the Royal Albert Hall, she reluctantly gets on a plane, where she meets cute with a handsome Oxford English Professor. Soon they …
Ann hopes to start over after the death of her father, and heads to New York to work as a Curatorial Associate after graduating. When she arrives, there is no longer a place for her at the Met, but she's offered a coveted place at the Cloisters, a mysterious Gothic building with beautiful gardens. Soon, …
Elin Hilderbrand, the queen of beach reads set on Nantucket, is back with a book of short stories and novelas. This collection is a series of stories that are prequels, sequel stories, lost chapters and longer stories that tie into her previous books and characters. We revisit characters from books like Summer of 69, Beautiful …
Fuyuko is an introvert. She lives alone and has trouble making friends and being social, so she jumps at the chance to turn freelance and work from home. Her life revolves around her routine and her editing job, until one day she seeks out change. But its not easy for her, with her low self …
Continue reading All The Lovers ln The Night by Mieko Kawakami
1938 China, Meilin flees the encroaching Japanese with her son and a beautiful scroll embellished with stories, which was a gift from her beloved husband. On the road, sometimes with her brother in law and his wife and daughters, she reads the stories to her son to help him keep his courage. Over the course …
When Wren is pushed by her best friend to go on a few dates, she's reluctant and doesn't expect to meet anyone. But she does meet Adam, someone who she feels a strong connection to, and starts seeing seriously. When he suddenly, with barely a word, ghosts her, and then all his profiles disappear and …
The Snow Ball takes place all in one night as a masquerade ball on a snowy New Years Eve in fashionable London. The book mostly follows Anna, who is kissed at midnight by a mysterious man, but it also takes in her friend and the host of the party Anne, a wealthy woman who is …
In a resort town on the border of North and South Korea in deep Winter, a French-Korean receptionist at a guesthouse meets a graphic novelist from France. Immediately drawn to him, she agrees to shown him around her town and hopes that he will not just see the town as she sees it, but also …
Billed as an "escapist thriller", The Siren is set on the Carribean island of St. Genesius, where films star Cole Power is starring in a film opposite his ex-wife, Stella. Joining them is Taylor, the producer hoping to resurrect her career and Stella's mysterious assistant, Felicity, who has a secret link to some of the …
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