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Preparations are underway for this year’s 12th Marlborough LitFest being held from September 30 to October 3.

Rating: It begins like a thriller. ‘When the storm came in it was unexpected and Thomas Myers was dropped to his knees. The air darkened in the distance. There was a roar and everything went white against him. It had a kind of violence he wasn’t prepared for. He wrapped his arms around his head and lay flat on the ice to keep from being hurled away.’ We are in the Antarctic, 300 miles away from any kind of civilisation. Three men have come to work at Station K for Geographic Information ...

Fourth Estate; 288 pages; £14.99. To be published in America in September by Catapult; $26 I N “RESERVOIR 13”, a novel by Jon McGregor published in 2017, a teenage girl disappears while on a winter break with her family in the Peak District, a region in the north of England. As the case goes unsolved, and is gradually forgotten, the book changes focus and looks at the people directly and indirectly affected by the tragedy. Mr McGregor takes a similar approach in his new novel, “Lean Fall...