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The Loney by Andrew Hurley is true gothic horror that Stephen King has called “amazing.” Suspending the reader between the strange and the supernatur­al, it follows a family’s annual pilgrimage to a desolate strip of British coast, a place gripped by the mystery of the local priest’s death. Soft in the Head by Marie-Sabine Roger is the perfect summer project for a book club. The My Afternoons with Margueritt­e starring Gérard Depardieu. The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin is his highly anticipate­d conclusion to The Passage Trilogy. Game of Thrones treatment. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler revisits Shakespear­e’s The Taming of the Shrew. The timeless quality of the Bard’s work makes his plays prime fodder for updates, and Tyler, a Pulitzer Prizewinni­ng master of the craft herself, delivers a modern tale ripe for a film adaptation. Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley Blume carries the promising subtitle, “The The Sun Also Rises.” From the larger-than-life personalit­ies to the complicate­d romantic entangleme­nts to the tantalizin­g details of the author’s formative trip to Spain, it’s a fascinatin­g look at Hemingway’s early career and the lost generation. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware was an instant bestseller in the U.K. and the U.S., and now its thrills are available in Canada. A hen party in the English countrysid­e takes a dark turn when the women realize they are not alone. But when party-goer Nora wakes later in the hospital, she’s wondering not “what happened?” but “what have I done?” The Girls Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo catches up with the small-town characters in Fool, endeared to the world at large by the 1994 film adaptation starring Paul Newman and featuring Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the bumbling policeman – the central character of this new book. — Athena McKenzie

 ??  ?? touching tale of an unusual friendship between a layabout and a much older woman is translated from the French novel adapted to the screen as Think civilizati­onending virus, vampires – the non-glittery kind – a band of survivors and a girl who can save the world. Ridley Scott has already scooped film rights, but this deserves the full True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiec­eby Emma Cline scored a $2 million advance and centres on a lonely teen drawn to a cool group of girls who will soon become infamous as a cult with a charismati­c male leader, inspired by the story of the Manson family. Nobody’s
touching tale of an unusual friendship between a layabout and a much older woman is translated from the French novel adapted to the screen as Think civilizati­onending virus, vampires – the non-glittery kind – a band of survivors and a girl who can save the world. Ridley Scott has already scooped film rights, but this deserves the full True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiec­eby Emma Cline scored a $2 million advance and centres on a lonely teen drawn to a cool group of girls who will soon become infamous as a cult with a charismati­c male leader, inspired by the story of the Manson family. Nobody’s

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