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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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 ...
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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Our narrator, Robert, is a killer. An unintentional killer at that, but still a killer.
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I was attracted to this collection because of the title and the strikingly simple cover design. I like themed collections and I wondered how the author would ...
Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich’s latest novel…takes the idea of a ‘retrieval of history’ seriously – not just in its pale liberal version (‘memory’), but as the ...
Manhattan Beach is a novel bonded with the sea: from an epigraph by Melville (‘meditation and the water are wedded for ever’) to symbols of light, dark, and depth, Egan’s ...
The past few years have seen, once again, a growth and movement behind nationalism. From the cries to ‘take back our country’, the rejection of globalism for protectionism, to Brexit ...
In Sophie Hopesmith’s debut novel, Another Justified Sinner, commodities trader Marcus aims to get square with God.
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A brilliantly observed examination of choices and consequences, of why we act as we do and of just how similar we all are.
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War and loneliness shimmer poetically through the petri-dishes and green fluorescent protein, and science with its lovely gadgetry, specimens and syntax; its labs full of lonely researchers, wins hands down ...
It’s the sort of stuff you see but do not notice: in the gutter or down the back of a sofa, in the pocket of an old pair of trousers ...
In the beginning Samuel Orr and Anna Stuart, two of the main protagonists of this novel, have nonchalant sex in Belfast. Lots of nonchalant sex. On the sly. In her ...
The beating heart of these poems is music, not least because of the poet’s own cross-genre creative output and a song’s uncanny ability to situate the reader immediately in a ...
There are many facets to a novel that will early in the work tell me whether or not I will like a book.
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