The Schoolhouse: A novel Sports_Gift_Guide hires an actor to play

hires an actor to play a friend he invented in order to seem less lonely

Nikan has fought for its survival in the bloody Poppy Wars

the author creates a complete portrait of pure evil

Weary of her work as an investigator for Spain's secret police in Madrid

The Schoolhouse: A novel Sports_Gift_Guide hires an actor to playFrom the Booker Prize longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a masterful and gripping thriller about truth, silence, and the weight of the past. Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines and doesnt let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher