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The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

Fiction, Reviews

November 5, 2020/Kate Slotover

Looking for a brilliantly immersive page-turner? Read on. It’s 1634, and The Devil and the Dark Water begins on the island of Batavia, a Dutch trading colony, where the main characters are speedily introduced as they board a ship bound for Amsterdam. One of the many pleasing things about this...

‘The Ratline’ by Philippe Sands

Non-fiction, Reviews

May 20, 2020/Kate Slotover

In The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive, barrister Philippe Sands tells the story of Nazi war criminal Otto von Wachter. As Governor of Galicia, von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed. By...

‘Hamnet’ by Maggie O-Farrell

Fiction, Reviews

May 18, 2020/Kate Slotover

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither...

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The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

‘The Ratline’ by Philippe Sands

‘Hamnet’ by Maggie O-Farrell