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Roddy Doyle, author of Life Without Children: Stories

Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these 10 beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother’s funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret.

Week of February 20, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of February 20th include DREAM TOWN, the third thriller in David Baldacci's Nero Award-winning series starring private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer, who heads to Los Angeles and is ensnared in a lethal case; THE PARIS APARTMENT, a fiendishly clever locked room mystery from Lucy Foley, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide; FRENCH BRAID by Anne Tyler, a funny, joyful and brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles; Amy Bloom's powerful memoir, IN LOVE, an illuminating story of two people whose love leads them to find a courageous way to part --- and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss; and the paperback original THE WOMAN WITH THE CURE by Lynn Cullen, a riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic.