Departure(s)
by Julian Barnes
Knopf/PRH
This is a wonderful farewell gift. It examines memory, friendship, love, work and mortality - all with humor, warmth and great philosophic insights.
You don't want to miss Jimmy - a great and loving part of the story.
Thank you Mr. Barnes for this last marvelous work.
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by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Grand Central Publishing/Hachette
pub date 3/31/26
Brooks-Dalton has a way of doing lots of different things together - a character study, an academic critique, a failed marriage, a love story, a vast adventure. You do finish this wanting more of Ember's story. Which is not at all a bad thing.
If you haven't read her others, they are also warm, thoughtful and books you don't want to miss - The Light Pirate and Good Morning, Midnight.
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by Tim Sullivan
Atlantic Crime/Grove Atlantic
Each of these Tim Sullivan mysteries is interesting and has a good crime to consider. But more than that, each develops the character of DS George Cross a bit more; in this one we learn a great deal about his father and his mother and there is a strong sense that we will learn more in future books.
Don't miss this series.
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by Eddie Robson
Tor/Macmillan
Characters you will come to care about, a convoluted heist that can only fail, some. A vision of a London that we may live to see. This is frightening, thoughtful and fun.
If you haven't already read it, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, is an earlier Robson - lighter, funnier and very charming.
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by Kevin Barry
PenguinBooks/PRH
The poetry. This is a very odd, sad, beautiful book. Much like The Heart in Winter, there is truth, wonder, and heartbreak. You don't need to be a Beatles, or John Lennon fan to love this, but it probably helps. It will make you want to see the West Coast of Ireland.
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