A stylistically complex novel, Stubborn Archivist blends prose poetry and disjointed narratives, the result of which is a novel with a sense of urgency.
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Nebraska. A CGI and colour free zone it relies instead on character relationships, and real life chances taken and lost.
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‘My Dad’s Gap Year’ at its heart is about how love survives disappointment, failure and broken taboos but Tom Wright has wrapped it up in a fast-moving comedy and the ...
The Wedding is an exploration of what it means to become, and to be an adult in our society, with all the fun, challenges, misunderstandings, ties, and betrayals it brings ...
So my big question when starting the book was “How is this going to work?”
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Jamali Maddix is not quite thirty yet but after listening to him for an hour at the Hackney Empire on Saturday night, he struck me as a man who had ...
Food is a byword for class, loss, happiness, and a minefield of potential gaffes for the culturally uninitiated.
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Between the sloping floor and bazar feel of the lounge to the two hundred seat theatre with fading walls, it is a warm, intimate place for a one-man show.
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When you expect The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually to become a whodunnit it morphs more into a mystery and almost becomes a ghost story, but don’t let me give ...
The backdrops are real and effectively drawn but it is in charting the contours of the human condition that McNamara succeeds with skilful interpretation.
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I cannot say, hand on heart, that every single story was for me, but I can say I was never bored, never tempted to put the book down and come ...
All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression.
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The author who would become known internationally as Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 in northern Ukraine, a region home to a significant community of ethnic Poles.
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Just a little over halfway through Erik Martiny’s debut novel, the protagonist-narrator, Olaf Montcocq, deep in the throes of adolescent literary self-emergence, explains how he welcomed the prospect of being ...
In this book Gordon takes five women writers who battled against the social norms and takes us behind the characters they created
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What Garcia offers is an unwaveringly bleak satire on Generation Y, capturing the slow souring of that age as its unstoppable idealism comes up against the unbudgeable drudgery that is ...
All the stories are of our era, this decade – social media, Amazon, portfolio purchase of residential apartments, extortionate rents, franchise coffee outlets, Sports Direct, Saint George’s Cross flags, parakeets ...
These poems and prose poems are not simply love letters to loyal companions; instead the reader is presented with Blakeian explorations into perspectives: the points of view of animals, their ...
We that are young, which recently won the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction, is a retelling of the King Lear story set in India.
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Meet you. You are the hero of Mr. Either/Or, a story told in second person, which creates the feel of a choose-your-own-adventure novel.
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