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Daily Mirror launches Mirror Book Club – and picks the first book


Welcome to the new Mirror Book Club.

Each month we’ll choose a paperback we think you’ll love.

And when you’ve read it, you can share your thoughts with us and with your fellow Mirror Book Club readers.

Sometimes we’ll recommend a novel, sometimes non-fiction – and the very first Mirror Book Club choice is Transcription by Kate Atkinson.

We’d love you to read it then tell us what you think.

What did you like about it? What did you think of the characters? Did the ending surprise you?

And which books would you love to discuss as part of your Mirror Book Club?

Transcription

Transcription

Kate Atkinson

It is 1940 and Juliet, 17, is recruited by the Secret Service to eavesdrop on fascist Britons who think they are passing secrets to the Third Reich but are in fact confiding in an intelligence officer posing as a Gestapo agent.

Then Juliet is sent to infiltrate Establishment circles and root out more traitors. But her life goes dramatically awry after a shocking murder. Nothing is quite as it seems in a novel layered with intrigue, double-dealing and suspense.

Black Swan, £8.99

Other books we’re reviewing this week

I Talk Too Much

Francis Rossi

I Talk Too Much by Francis Rossi

Status Quo have been rockin’ all over for 50 years and this autobiography packs in the tales of excess. His septum was eroded by cocaine and there are gigs he can’t recall thanks to tequila blackouts. But there is poignancy too. Rick Parfitt’s death hangs over the book like a thundercloud and Francis is surprisingly frank about the breakdown of their relationship.

Constable, £20

Bluffer’s Guide to Journalism

Susie Boniface

To the outsider, journalism can seem intimidating. Reporters like to play up their reputation for being hard-nosed, hard-driven and even harder drinkers. Susie Boniface punctures the myths. Caustic and funny, this will teach you far more about journalism than a three-year media studies course.

Haynes Publishing, £6.99

Freefall

Jessica Barry

Allison pulls herself from the wreckage of her private chartered flight which crashed in the Colorado Rockies, killing the pilot. Despite an injured leg, she sets off to find help. Meanwhile her mother is told Allison died in the crash. When she sets out to investigate, she discovers her daughter’s glamorous life masks a dirty secret. A tense, gripping thriller.





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