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BOOK REVIEW: STOLEN

It is one thing to lose something, but quite another to have had it stolen.

by Barbara Wheatley • March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: RIVER SPIRIT

A sense of inevitability pervades “River Spirit ” as seven narrators negotiate the personal, political and religious challenges of Sudan in the late nineteenth century.

by Anna Hattersley • March 23, 2023March 24, 2023

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SEA OF EDEN

A love letter to humanity and nature, art and culture.

by Jane Wright • March 16, 2023March 18, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: ALL YOUR CHILDREN, SCATTERED

A story that crosses four generations of a family, “All Your Children, Scattered” looks at how communication breaks down, and how it might be repaired.

by Adam Ley-Lange • March 9, 2023March 10, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: SIBLINGS

As a relatively young author, Brigitte Reimann imbued the novel with her convictions and enthusiasm for the work that her generation was doing to rebuild a post-war Germany that was ...

by Francesca Ferrauto • March 2, 2023March 5, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: SALT CRYSTALS

An uncompromising new voice from San Andres that describes a magical, transcendent place.

by Jackie Morris • February 16, 2023February 16, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOUR LINE

Scego blends Italy’s contentious past and present, unearthing the layers beneath Rome’s glittering surface.

by Noreen Kane • February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: A MOUNTAIN TO THE NORTH, A LAKE TO THE SOUTH, PATHS TO THE WEST, A RIVER TO THE EAST

This novel simply is. Give it the time and attention it deserves and it will stay with you for the rest of your life

by Tamar Drukker • February 2, 2023February 3, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: IS THERE RUSH HOUR IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY?

How can we map new itineraries of empathy? Cartography is a way to organise knowledge, and a walk is what grounds those ideas in reality.

by Phương Anh • January 26, 2023January 27, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: EVERYTHING CALLS FOR SALVATION

This book is a humane lesson on how to remain kind and sensitive towards our fellow struggling humans

by Francesca Ferrauto • January 19, 2023January 20, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: BODY KINTSUGI

A novel which effortlessly transcends the banality of categorisation to tell the story of a body and its struggle to feel whole.

by Jennifer Brough • January 12, 2023January 11, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: WAKE ME UP AT 9 IN THE MORNING

Reading this novel is like falling a mind map, with landscape, characters and crimes carefully plotted.

by Barbara Wheatley • January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: WELL-KEPT RUINS

Cixous explores the liminal space between fiction and fact, memory and history, novel and memoir.

by Zadie Loft • December 29, 2022December 29, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: LIBERATION DAY

Saunders has made a name for himself as both a writers’ writer and a readers’ writer and this collection is full of everything you’d expect from his author.

by Katy Carr • December 22, 2022December 27, 2022