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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Novel, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: MOTHER FOR DINNER
Shalom Auslander’s Mother for Dinner reviewed
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Arts & Culture, biography, Books, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: JOHANNES BRAHMS
Jan Swafford’s Johannes Brahms: A Biography reviewed
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Book Review: The Lamplighters, by Emma Stonex
The Lamplighters begins with a classic locked room mystery, inspired by a real-life event in the Outer Hebrides in 1900, but the mystery is just the starting point for this ...
Book Review: The Dead are Arising: the Life of Malcolm X
The Dead Are Arising won a National Book Award in the US last year, and it is certainly a monumental act of biographical reconstruction. Perhaps its monumental status is part ...
Book Review: Riku Onda’s “The Aosawa Murders”
‘The Aosawa Murders’ is a joy to read. It is cleverly paced and constructed so that each new chapter brings more fragments and clues for us to stitch together, to ...
Book Review: Astral Travel by Elizabeth Baines
There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else.
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Book Review: Postcolonoial Love Poems by Nathalie Diaz
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; ...
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
Book Review: The DNA of You and Me, by Andrea Rothman
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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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
Book Review: Punch, by Kate North
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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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
Book Review: This Paradise, by Ruby Cowling
This Paradise offers an incredibly diverse range of topics. They are original, current, entertaining, and relevant.
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
Book Review: Common People, edited by Kit de Waal
With over thirty contributions from as many writers, Common People shines a light on the huge diversity of people in the United Kingdom and celebrates this richness loudly.
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Book Review: London Undercurrents, by Joolz Sparkes and Hilaire
Sparkes and Hilaire have divided in two the work of unearthing and voicing by location, with Sparkes taking North and Hilaire the South of London, demarcated by the river that ...
Book Review: The Choke, by Sofie Laguna
In “The Choke” characters are trapped by circumstances, doomed to repeat the mistakes of previous generations, as they bid to break free from a cycle of poverty, addiction and violence.
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Book Review: Adèle, by Leïla Slimani
A brilliant and troubling portrait of female sex addiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby
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Book Review: At Home in the New World, by Maria Terrone
In her collection of essays, At Home in the New World, Maria Terrone explores the world through the lens of an Italian-American New Yorker.
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Book Review: Stubborn Archivist, by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
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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Book Review: Bottled Goods, by Sophie van Llewyn
So my big question when starting the book was “How is this going to work?”
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Book Review: Table Manners, by Susmita Bhattacharya
Food is a byword for class, loss, happiness, and a minefield of potential gaffes for the culturally uninitiated.
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Book Review: The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually, by Jinny Koh
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 ...
Book Review: The Cartography of Others, by Catherine McNamara
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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