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The Sealed Knot by Clare Clark

No, it IS good, I promise! I’m at a low ebb. The creative vim and vigour I felt after the week-long writing-slash-wellness-slash-cold-water-swimming (voluntary) retreat to which I retreated in September* has through temporal entropy become foggy and indistinct; coupled with what feels like a year-long cold I can barely lift my AeroPress®™ espresso without sighing. It didn’t help that in all the beautiful photos taken by the immensely talented Jassy Earl  (quickly,  send her money , you feckless boobs!) I look like a fat, 46-year-old who’s going all-in on his dad-jowls and is resigned to his fate – not even Jassy can disguise the attritional damage of time and neglect. So, to start a new sentence with a preposition, I decided that the only way to lift my spirit is to lift up other people, starting with Jassy but continuing with my good friend Clare Harman Clark and her historical romance (histomance? romanstory? romantasy? Where’s a good portmanteau when you need one?) The Sealed Knot.

Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel by Jeff VanderMeer

Slumberland by Paul Beatty

The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer

The Whitewash by Siang Lu

The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time by Steven Sherrill

I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan

The Book Of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

Evenfall: The Golden Linnet by Alexander Armstrong

Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll

Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession

In memoriam - Ismail Kadare

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

The Ball Is Round: A Global History Of Football by David Goldblatt

Telephone by Percival Everett

Elis and John Present the Holy Vible: The Book The Bible Could Have Been by Elis James and John Robins

Loose Head by Joe Marler

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

Severance by Ling Ma

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

The Yips by Nicola Barker

James by Percival Everett

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

The Delivery by Margarita Garcia Robayo

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

The Cartoonist by Richard Beard

Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

Glyph by Percival Everett

Weasels In The Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

When Lions Roared: The Lions, The All Blacks, And The Legendary Tour Of 1971, by Tom English and Peter Burns

The Book Of Paradise by Itzik Manger

A Dead Man In Deptford by Anthony Burgess

Dr. No by Percival Everett

Love Murder by Saul Black

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

King Rat by China Miéville

Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor

The Android Mirror by Christopher Hall

Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes

From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami

There There by Tommy Orange

Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah