Recommendations from our site
“It’s about a theatre critic at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival who sleeps with the performer of a one-woman show he has just reviewed scathingly in print. Her response is to rebrand the show ‘The Alex Lyons Experience,’ dredging up all his previous offences and hosting his ex-girlfriends on stage for a retrospective review.” Read more...
Notable New Novels of Summer 2025
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Our most recommended books
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					 Higher Calling: Road Cycling’s Obsession with the Mountains
 by Max Leonard
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					 Up The Organization
 by Robert Townsend
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					 Desire Discrimination Determination: Black Champions in Cycling
 by Marlon Moncrieffe
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					 Amusing Ourselves to Death
 by Neil Postman
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					 End to End
 by Paul Jones
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					 A Walk in the Woods
 by Bill Bryson








