Summer Moet (p), by Wendy Holden; In The Midnight Room
(p), by Laura McBride; The Ninth Hour (p), by Alice
McDermott; The Secret Keeper (l), by Susan Lewis;
Johannesburg (p), by Fiona Melrose; Secret Books (p), by
Marcel Theroux; Sunset Over The Cherry Orchard (p), by Jo
Thomas; and, Anatomy Of A Scandal (p), by Sarah Vaughan.
Middle-Earth series by Tolkien’s son, Christopher. In the words
of JRR Tolkien, it was ‘the first real story of this imaginary
world’. Together with his works Beren and Luthien and The
Children of Hurin, he regarded it as one of the three ‘Great
Tales’ of the Elder Days.
Thrillers worth a look
from this month’s
extensive list for
publication include: Fall
Down Dead (l), by
Stephen Booth; A Close
Run Thing (l), by David
Donachie; Y Is For
Yesterday (p), by Sue
Grafton; The Mystery
Of Three Quarters (l), an
Hercule Poirot story
from Sophie Hannah;
Earth Storm (p), by
Mons Kallentoft; A
Measure Of Darkness (l),
by Jonathan Kellerman;
Broken Ground (l), by
Val McDermid; The
Psychology Of Time
Travel (l), by Kate
Mascarenhas; The Way
Of All Flesh (l), by Ambrose Parry; In Bloom (p), by CJ Skuse;
Lullaby (p), by Leila Slimani; and, Fatal Sunset (p), a Valencia-
based Max Camara mystery by Jason Webster.
Two standouts in the
fantasy fiction list include
The Story Of Kullervo (p)
and The Fall Of Gondolin
(l), both by the late JRR
Tolkien of The Lord Of
The Rings fame.
The first of these is a
previously unknown
work. It tells of a doomed
young man who is sold
into slavery and swears
revenge on the magician
who killed his father. It is
being published with the
author’s drafts, notes and
lecture-essays on its
source-work.
In The Fall of Gondolin,
two of the greatest powers
in the world clash. Morgoth of the uttermost evil is unseen
throughout but rules a vast military power from his fortress.
His foe is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwe, chief of the
Valar. This earliest tale from the First Age was published
posthumously in the second volume of The History Of
Key: (l) hardback or large paperback (p) small paperback
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