Complicated couples, plumbers on the move…oh, and human rights, murder and war. Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel take on three novels focusing on everything from ordinary relationships to people in the political spotlight.

• The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk
• My Driver by Maggie Gee
• The Devil and Mr. Casement by Jordan Goodman
   

Short stories are the order of the day. Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel turn the pages of some new collections that will take you to Kashmir and back on your lunch break—it won’t always be smooth riding though.

• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
• The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
• In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir’s Long War—One Family’s Extraordinary Story by Justine Hardy
   

Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel are dazzled by the memoirs of a war correspondent, less than thrilled by the memoir of a New York dominatrix and intrigued by a contemporary murder mystery:

• Breaking News by Martin Fletcher
• Whip Smart by Melissa Febos
• The Fourth Assassin by Matt Rees

Our regular panel discusses three very different stories with the common theme of displacement and exile:

• Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
• Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin  

Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel discuss:

• I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel discuss:

• The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved & Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade 
• Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Pete Forster and the Bookmark panel discuss:

• An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell
• The Dogs and the Wolves by Irene Nemirovsky
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers