October 2026
Klara and the Sun
An Artificial Friend observes human life while waiting to be chosen by a child who needs companionship.
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Dua Lipa’s Service95 book club
An international reading shelf spanning fiction, memoir, essays and a play. Explore Dua Lipa’s Monthly Reads, with introductions to each work and links to fine editions where available.
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September 2026
Martyr!
A newly sober Iranian American poet searches for meaning in his mother’s death and his family’s history.
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August 2026
Lost Lambs
The Flynn family’s private crises collide with the noise, suspicion and overstimulation of contemporary life.
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July 2026
Free
Lea Ypi’s childhood in Albania becomes an inquiry into political change and competing meanings of freedom.
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June 2026
Having Spent Life Seeking
A man returning home after prison confronts family trauma, addiction and the possibility of change.
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May 2026
So Late In The Day
A man’s apparently ordinary day reveals the small cruelties that have undermined his relationship.
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April 2026
Jerusalem
Jez Butterworth’s play places Johnny “Rooster” Byron’s unruly life against the pressures of a changing rural England.
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March 2026
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay’s essays consider feminism through culture, politics and the contradictions of personal experience.
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February 2026
The Son Of Man
A father’s return draws a woman and her son into an isolated mountain household shadowed by inherited violence.
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January 2026
Night People
Mark Ronson revisits the clubs, records and early experiences that shaped his life as a New York DJ.
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December 2025
Brightly Shining
Two sisters face poverty and their father’s unreliable care as Christmas approaches in Oslo.
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November 2025
The Handmaid’s Tale
A woman forced into reproductive servitude records daily life under a theocracy built on the systematic removal of women's rights.
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October 2025
Flesh
An unassuming Hungarian man’s physical presence carries him through radically changing circumstances and social worlds.
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September 2025
The Trees
A series of murders in Mississippi becomes an uncanny reckoning with the history of racist violence.
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August 2025
This House Of Grief
Close observation of an Australian murder trial becomes a study of grief, doubt and the effort to understand another person's actions.
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July 2025
Small Boat
A fictionalised account of a Channel disaster examines the decisions and indifference surrounding unanswered calls for help.
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June 2025
Widow Basquiat
Jennifer Clement traces Suzanne Mallouk’s relationship with Jean-Michel Basquiat and the New York art world around them.
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May 2025
Still Born
Two friends’ different choices about motherhood unfold alongside questions of care, uncertainty and responsibility.
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April 2025
Grief Is The Thing With Feathers
A bereaved father and his two sons receive an unsettling visitor in the form of Crow.
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March 2025
There There
Interconnected Native American lives converge on a powwow in Oakland.
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February 2025
The Bee Sting
Four members of an Irish family reveal the anxieties, secrets and misjudgements beneath their increasingly precarious circumstances.
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January 2025
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead
An older woman's account of suspicious deaths challenges her neighbours' assumptions about animals, justice and whose explanations deserve attention.
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November 2024
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
A son’s letter to his mother explores family history, migration, sexuality and the limits of language.
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October 2024
Lincoln In The Bardo
Abraham Lincoln's grief for his son intersects with a chorus of unsettled spirits in an experimental account of loss and attachment.
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September 2024
Bad Habit
A young trans woman searches for freedom and community in working-class Madrid.
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July 2024
Noughts & Crosses
A relationship across racial divisions exposes the violence and inequality of an imagined society with an inverted racial hierarchy.
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June 2024
Say Nothing
An investigation of a Belfast mother's disappearance examines violence, secrecy and the difficult legacy of the Troubles.
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May 2024
Swimming In The Dark
Two young men’s relationship confronts differing allegiances and ambitions in communist Poland.
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April 2024
Crying In H Mart
Michelle Zauner explores grief, Korean food and the complicated intimacy of her relationship with her mother.
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March 2024
Trust
Competing accounts of a financier's life investigate the relationship between wealth, narrative authority and the histories that powerful people leave behind.
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February 2024
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Two Afghan women's lives become intertwined through marriage, violence and changing political regimes.
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January 2024
The Guest
A young woman drifts through the wealthy world of Long Island after losing the security of a relationship.
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November 2023
The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters’ diverging lives reveal how race, identity and family secrets shape the next generation.
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October 2023
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
The fortunes of the Buendía family and the town of Macondo unfold through generations of desire, upheaval and repetition.
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September 2023
Just Kids
Patti Smith recalls her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe and their beginnings in New York’s creative world.
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August 2023
Half Of A Yellow Sun
Interconnected lives reveal the hopes and devastating consequences of the Biafran struggle for independence.
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July 2023
Pachinko
Several generations of a Korean family negotiate migration, discrimination and survival in Japan.
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June 2023
Shuggie Bain
A Glasgow boy's devotion to his mother unfolds amid poverty, addiction and the search for acceptance.
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