Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale

Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick GaleNOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION is a moving, intuitive novel of artistic compulsion, marriage, and the secrets left behind. Celebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with the creative highs and devastating lows that have coloured her life. Her family gathers, each of them searching for answers. They reflect on lives shaped by the enigmatic Rachel as artist, wife and mother and on the ambiguous legacies she

Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world

These stories feature well known names like Fionn MacCumhaill

This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in

Bloodroot is truly exceptional

Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition

And a deeply sleeping dinosaur is waking up

government to friendships

and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her

This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense

is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights

Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet

the last of them on the phone with her son