by Ross Montgomery(£16.99, HB, Penguin) Cornwall, 1910. Convinced that Halley’s comet will bring about the apocalypse, the pompous Viscount of Tithe Hall seals his home off from the outside world – on

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These Spectred Isles

by Lily King (£18.99, HB, Canongate Books) The choices we make when we’re young can reverberate throughout our lives. As a young woman at university, our narrator is swept off into the intoxicating wo

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