MUST READS
The 植民地 by Audrey Magee (Faber £8.99, 384pp)
The 植民地?
by Audrey Magee (Faber £8.99, 384pp)?
As he makes his way to a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland, Mr Lloyd, an artist from London, is looking 今後 to a summer of 孤独, which he hopes will reinvigorate his career and marriage.??
より小数の than 100 people live on the island, and they are mostly Irish （衆議院の）議長s. Soon after arriving, Lloyd is irritated to find his 孤独 侵略するd by another 部外者, ジーンズ-Pierre Masson, a linguist who specialises in languages that are 脅すd with 絶滅.?
始める，決める in 1979, against the violent 背景 of The Troubl es, Audrey Magee 調査するs the intricate web of 関係s between the islanders and the 訪問者s.?
The 部外者s have come 推定する／予想するing to find inspiration, but their arrival changes the island and its inhabitants in ways that 非，不，無 of them could have 心配するd.?
Impossible by Sarah Lotz (HarperCollins £8.99, 448pp)
Impossible?
by Sarah Lotz (HarperCollins £8.99, 448pp)?
When ghostwriter Nick sends an email to a slowpaying （弁護士の）依頼人, it lands in the wrong inbox. Bee, who runs a 着せる／賦与するing 商売／仕事, replies, and the 続いて起こるing banter turns flirty.?
Neither of them has been lucky in love: Bee is 離婚d; Nick’s 関係 with his partner is as 沈滞した as his career. The flirtation seems 確かな to develop into romance. But when the couple arrange to 会合，会う at Euston 駅／配置する, something goes bizarrely wrong. They both turn up, but they can’t find each other, and their phones don’t work.?
As they 調査／捜査する, they realise they are living in 平行の universes where some things are the same (星／主役にする Trek, the internet), but others wildly different (in Nick’s world, 9/11 never happened). Sarah Lotz’s ingenious novel is a witty tale of love across the multiverse.?
The Gift Of A 無線で通信する by Justin Webb (Penguin £10.99, 256pp)
The Gift Of A 無線で通信する?
by Justin Webb (Penguin £10.99, 256pp)?
Whether 報告（する）／憶測ing from war zones or interrogating 政治家，政治屋s, Justin Webb excels at remaining 静める. But as his memoir 明らかにする／漏らすs, he had a lot of 早期に practice.?
His mother, Gloria, worked as a 長官 at the Daily Mirror, where she became 妊娠している by Peter 支持を得ようと努めるd, later a BBC newsreader.?
Justin was eight years old when his mother pointed at the television and said: ‘That’s your father.’ Justin’s stepfather, Charles, was schizophrenic.?
But Gloria’s hope that 搭乗 school would 申し込む／申し出 a more stable 環境 was not realised. The descriptions of Sidcot School, carefully underplayed in letters home, are heart-rending.?
That he not only 生き残るd but 繁栄するd is remarkable. But as he 結論するs, however eccentric his しつけ, he loved Gloria and she him: ‘In the end, what else is there?’?
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