A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Groundswell Speaker 2024 and a Chinese librarian who

and a Chinese librarian who stole 143 paintings by famous Chinese artists and replaced them with his own fakes

and internal conflicts could rot each family from within

these ancient stories are filled with strange characters

where the Parthian and then Persian empires ruled over great cities and the trade routes to mysterious lands beyond

Champton joins St Mary Mead and Midsomer in the great atlas of fictional English villages where the crimes are as dastardly as the residents delightful' - DAMIAN BARRIt's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Groundswell Speaker 2024 and a Chinese librarian who'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' Dua Lipa The million copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards. Shortlisted for the Booker