WSP15

Arctic Summer

By Damon Galgut - Published 2014Published WSP15

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Spanning the years from 1906 to 1924, Arctic Summer transports readers from England to India and Egypt in this fictional biography of E. M. Forster. ...Read Review

The Zone of Interest

By Martin Amis - Published 2014Published WSP15

Genres:

Literary

Amis takes us into the uncomfortable territory of a Nazi death camp in Poland in 1942 and 1943. It is not named, but it soon ...Read Review

A God in Every Stone

By Kamila Shamsie - Published 2014Published WSP15

Genres:

Literary

While working on a dig in Turkey with a family friend, Vivian Rose Spencer, a young Englishwoman, falls in love with both archaeology ...Read Review

Viper Wine

By Hermione Eyre - Published 2014Published 2014-03-13Published 2015Published WSP15

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The observant reader will immediately deduce that there is something a little unusual about this novel set in 17th-century England if he or ...Read Review

The Ten Thousand Things

By John Spurling - Published 2014Published WSP15

Genres:

Literary

Wang Meng is a low-level government worker in 14th-century China. A gifted painter who is devoted to his art, Wang becomes entangled in ...Read Review

The Lie

By Helen Dunmore - Published 2014Published WSP15

Genres:

Literary

Cornwall 1920. Daniel Branwell has survived the Great War as an infantryman; with his mother, his only relation, having died whilst he was serving ...Read Review

In the Wolf’s Mouth

By Adam Foulds - Published 2014Published WSP15

Genres:

LiteraryMilitary

Set mostly in the battlegrounds of North Africa and Italy in the Second World War, this is a poetic and beautifully observed novel. ...Read Review