Our next pick from our subscribers' submissions

Plus The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

In today’s issue:

—’It was the last thing I saw, there above the ghost gumtrees before the van door shut and, with it, my brain: a torch-star with tails, white and blue-green; a winged creature in flight.’: our second pick from books submitted by our paid subscribers, Ruby Todd’s literary mystery Bright Objects.

Our previous pick was Susan Hayden’s Now You Are a Missing Person. Read an extract here.

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