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The rainy bank holiday survival kit

Three days off, horizontal rain. Sofa, blanket, and something with a twist.

The forecast has betrayed you again. Good. A locked-room mystery and a rattling window is the finest entertainment this country produces.

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
One murder, lived eight times in eight bodies. The cleverest puzzle box in years.
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The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
A crumbling house and painted wooden figures that will not stay put. Proper Victorian chills.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
The strangest, most quotable narrator in American fiction. Read it in one sitting; you will anyway.
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