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What We Can Know

2025

by Ian McEwan

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.


2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.


Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining island archipelagos, pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.


What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

The Hallmarked Man

The Hallmarked Man is a gripping addition to the Cormoran Strike series. A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. Initially thought to be a convicted armed robber, not everyone agrees. Decima Mullins is among those who disagree and seeks the help of private detective Cormoran Strike, convinced that the body is her boyfriend, the father of her newborn, who mysteriously disappeared.

As Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott delve deeper, the case becomes a labyrinth of twists and turns. The silver shop, located beside the Freemasons' Hall, specializes in Masonic silverware. It becomes evident that there are more missing men who could fit the profile of the body found.

Strike faces personal turmoil as well, as Robin seems increasingly committed to her boyfriend, Ryan Murphy, while his own feelings for her grow stronger.

This wonderfully complex novel takes Strike and Robin's story to a thrilling new level, making The Hallmarked Man an unmissable read for fans of this unique series.

Summer Lightning

2025

by P.G. Wodehouse

The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir—a tell-all that could destroy polite society. Everyone wants this manuscript gone, particularly Lord Emsworth’s neighbor, Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, who would do anything to keep the story of the prawns buried in the past. But the memoir isn’t the only problem.

A chorus girl disguised as an heiress, a double-dealing detective, a stolen prize-winning sow, and a crazy ex-secretary are only a few of the complications that must be dealt with before everyone can have their happy ending.

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