Kate Hopkins

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Articles

Ask Me Again, Clare Sestanovich — nb. Magazine

2 months ago | nbmagazine.co.uk | Kate Hopkins |Sophie Percival

Clare Sestanovich’s debut novel follows the acclaimed short-story collection Objects of Desire. It explores a young woman’s fraught coming of age and an unusual friendship between sixteen-year-old Eva and Jamie, who meet by chance. She comes from Brooklyn and is the child of liberal middle-class parents; he has grown up in Manhattan in a family as dysfunctional as it is wealthy. Their backgrounds could not be more different.
The Party, Tessa Hadley — nb. Magazine

Dec 9, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Kate Hopkins |Sophie Percival

Tessa Hadley has won much acclaim for her portrayals of intelligent women struggling to reconcile intellectual and artistic ambitions with a need for love. The Party, her thirteenth book and first novella, examines this topic from the perspective of two sisters living in 1950s Bristol. Evelyn is studying French at the university, and her older sister Moira is an art student. Both girls long to escape their ‘smothering’ family life and find romance and adventure.
The Echoes, Evie Wyld — nb. Magazine

Oct 14, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Kate Hopkins |Sophie Percival

Evie Wyld’s The Echoes is a short but structurally intricate novel about displacement and family secrets. Max and Hannah meet in a London creative writing class and quickly fall in love. But Hannah’s refusal to discuss her earlier life in Australia, reluctance to have children and self-sabotaging tendencies put their relationship under increasing strain. After Max dies unexpectedly, his ghost haunts the couple’s flat, desperate to discover what his girlfriend was hiding from him.
The Silence in Between, Josie Ferguson — nb. Magazine

Sep 30, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Kate Hopkins |Sophie Percival

Josie Ferguson’s acclaimed debut novel opens on 12th August 1961. Lisette has taken her sick baby Axel from East Berlin to a hospital in the West. She goes home to rest, intending to return the next day; however, overnight, she finds the borders have closed and a wall is being erected between East and West. Her adolescent daughter Elly determines to find a way to enter West Berlin and bring her brother home.
Laid-back beach suburb offers chill alternative to bustling Noosa

Sep 13, 2024 | travel.nine.com.au | Kate Hopkins

Once known as a fairly quiet beach spot, Sunshine Beach is quickly becoming a popular destination for those who want to be close by to its famous neighbour Noosa, but far enough away from the crowds of Hastings St.A breathtaking surf beach with white sand as far as the eye can see, it's not hard to see why more people are choosing to visit and stay in Sunshine Beach. Here's how to make the most of your trip.
Percy's Purr | Austin Macauley Publishers

Jul 10, 2024 | austinmacauley.com | Kate Hopkins

These are the stories of two best friends. Percy is a young black cat and Pilot a bouncy black Labrador. These are heartwarming, amusing stories to curl up with and enjoy. Who has stolen the Halloween treats and exchanged them for stones? On a visit to Witch Tree Woods, will they solve the mystery of the woo noise? Can they escape Hogwood the grumpy wild boar? Will they save the baby owls from the nasty crow Corvus?
The Two Loves of Sophie Strom, Sam Taylor — nb. Magazine

May 28, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Kate Hopkins |Sophie Percival

The Two Loves of Sophie Strom explores the concept of parallel universes in the context of the Nazis’ rise to power. One night in Vienna in 1933, 13-year-old Max Spiegelman’s life splits in two when his home is attacked by anti-Semitic arsonists. In the first scenario, he escapes with disfiguring burns, is orphaned, and subsequently adopted by a Nazi-sympathizing family who give him the Aryan identity of ‘Hans Schatten’.
The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden — nb. Magazine

May 22, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Kate Hopkins |Sophie Percival

Yael van der Wouden’s compelling debut is set in the rural Dutch province of Overijssel in 1961. Isabel lives alone in the house to which she, her two brothers and their mother moved at the end of the Second World War. She spends most of her time keeping it in immaculate order – for ‘a house is a precious thing’. However, her reclusive life is upended when her philandering older brother insists that his new girlfriend Eva stays with her for the summer.
Second Self, Chloë Ashby — nb. Magazine

May 3, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Kate Hopkins |Sophie Percival

Chloë Ashby’s assured second novel is narrated by Cathy, a thirty-five-year-old art conservationist whose personal life is at a watershed. Her husband Noah has always been definite that he doesn’t want children and, until recently, Cathy has felt the same. But suddenly she is not so sure. She impetuously decides to preserve her fertility by freezing her eggs. Will this make her relationship with Noah unsustainable?
The Time of Cherries, Montserrat Roig (translated by Julia Sanches) — nb. Magazine

Apr 10, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Kate Hopkins |Sophie Percival

Montserrat Roig’s award-winning The Time of Cherries was first published in 1977, but has only now been issued in English, expertly translated by Julia Sanches. The book explores the final months of General Franco’s dictatorship from the perspective of a middle-class Catalan family. In spring 1974, Natàlia Miralpeix returns to Barcelona after twelve years abroad to find her country on the brink of change.