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The Motherload Book Club’s Top Reads of 2019
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The Motherload Book Club’s Top Reads of 2019

In this, The Motherload Book Club’s second year, I’ve read and listened to almost one hundred books. And when it came to narrowing them down to ten, I completely failed. So here’s my top fourteen (in alphabetical order by title).…
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Posted by By Laura Pearson
The Motherload Book Club: Our September Bookshelf
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The Motherload Book Club: Our September Bookshelf

Mine by Clare Empson A second novel from an author whose first novel you loved is a funny thing. Will you decide the glorious first novel was a one-hit wonder, or will this book seal the deal and elevate the…
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The Motherload Book Club: Our July Bookshelf
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The Motherload Book Club: Our July Bookshelf

The Body Lies by Jo Baker This novel arrived on my doormat unexpectedly, like the best kind of gift, and I read it over a couple of days while feeling feverish and achey. I was totally blown away by the…
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The Motherload Book Club: Our June Bookshelf
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The Motherload Book Club: Our June Bookshelf

What Red Was by Rosie Price This novel is astonishing. The writing is so fresh, so vivid, so seemingly simple, and yet it gnawed right under my skin and into my heart. I don’t think I’ve read anything that focuses…
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The Motherload Book Club: Our May Bookshelf
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The Motherload Book Club: Our May Bookshelf

Poster Boy by N J Crosskey At the start of this dystopian novel, we know that Rosa is about to get on stage at her brother’s memorial service with a bomb beneath her clothes. And from there, at breakneck speed,…
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Posted by By Laura Pearson
The Motherload Book Club: Our April Bookshelf
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The Motherload Book Club: Our April Bookshelf

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams I’m ashamed to say that it took a book with a black protagonist to make me realise how lacking in diversity the majority of my recent reads have been. And for that reason, I found Queenie…
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Posted by By Laura Pearson
The Motherload Book Club: Our November Bookshelf
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The Motherload Book Club: Our November Bookshelf

The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni If you like photography and the wilderness, The Lightkeepers will hit the right aesthetic notes. This psychological thriller is driven by rootlessness and the ease of human deception. Miranda is a nature photographer who functions best…
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Posted by By Laura Pearson
The Motherload Book Club: Our October Bookshelf
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The Motherload Book Club: Our October Bookshelf

What We're Teaching Our Sons by Owen Booth This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read. Written in the first-person plural, narrated by ‘the dads’, it explores the father/son relationship in a way that’s fresh and honest, and which swings…
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