The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadAuthor of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida. Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clear sighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time

At nearly 3

In Coralie's endless labour to do everything right and try to write

waiting for strangers to knock on their door

released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written

Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy

witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten to lead us over the edge

It granted bestselling historian Ben Macintyre unprecedented access to a treasure trove of SAS secret files

misunderstanding

and a story of truly epic scope

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BernadetteHeartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure

A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'Beautifully written