There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people: human beings like anybody else. And yet they never quite lose the godlike ...
Diaz’s poems display mesmerising images that celebrate the personal and global resilience of marginalised populations who resist and exist by cutting out a space for themselves in an occupied land; ...
Written in 1905, Sōseki’s work is narrated by an anonymous moggy who spends his days observing the comings-and-goings in the household of his master….
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I’ve very nearly finished re-reading Burr – which I thought I’d read forty years ago, but hardly scratched the surface.
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Vahni Capildeo’s Skin Can Hold bursts with ideas, electric with the joy of words. Capildeo is a writer enamoured with language, and her book offers up sextina, rondeau, motet, dialogue, ...
Although a translation of her short novel Ms Ice Sandwich was brought out by Pushkin Press in 2017, Breasts and Eggs is the first full-length fiction by Mieko Kawakami to ...
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: It seems a fitting time to declare that there is nothing out there as potent as black comedy to capture the absurdity of life in our time.
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Set in the years following the Mexican Revolution, El Llano in Flames is a collection of stark and violent short stories translated by Stephen Beechinor.
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“No novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this” – Toni Morrison.
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The diversity of voices across the collection reflects not only Chiew’s talent, but perhaps also the long span of years over which they were written.
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But when the summer disappears, Sokcho empties of the commercial buzz; it loses the boost of transitory, touristy cash.
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In the midst of the break-up, Ruth is charged with organising a hen party for her frenemy Alana, who within hours of Ruth’s split, announces her wedding.
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She stood up. Her parents had already left the house for work. She touched her belly over her blouse and felt its bubbling.
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If you love cleverly constructed mind-bending literature, you’ll appreciate Pharricide. Buy it. Or pick it up at the library.
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Best known for her food writing, in Map of Another Town the American writer M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a virtual tour of the French town of Aix-en-Provence.
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And they ask, “What would it mean, to trans people now, if our history were common knowledge?”
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An award that summarises what her life has been all about, the points of no return and the choices made along the way.
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Set in a crumbling post-WW2 London, A Small Dark Quiet by Miranda Gold is a book about loss, a delicate, haunting meditation on a generation both engulfed and shattered by ...
In this collection North has created incisively told anecdotes filled with a sense of anticipation, of something struggling to rise to the surface
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This Paradise offers an incredibly diverse range of topics. They are original, current, entertaining, and relevant.
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