We're revisiting an author this month after her recent Booker short lister about family mysteries and haunting memories, looking at Susan Choi's Flashlight. Our subread is an international one, Daniel Kehlmann's imagining of German filmmaker G.W. Pabst's collision with the Nazis in The Director.

A good concept of a novel that was let down by some poorly written characters and a plot that disappoints, Hemlock failed to win any converts at NUBClub.

A good novel with mixed reviews from NUBClub. Everyone could see that the book was well written and had a relevant theme about fascism and a changing world, but some people thought it was too obtuse and deliberately difficult for their tastes.