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Book Reviews
The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate by Rachel McCrum
There is a particular thrill at getting your hands on the book of a poet you normally encounter in more impermanent, intangible forms: readings, podcasts, in... Read more »| 01 Aug 2017 -
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Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba
Children can be so cruel. Easy when there's no perception of consequence. Perhaps that’s why they're a tool horror uses to tap into primal fears: we la... Read more »| 31 Jul 2017 -
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Petite Fleur by Iosi Havilio
In endings, there are perhaps new beginnings. Starting with the explosive end to his job at a fireworks factory, this new novel from Argentina's Iosi Havilio... Read more »| 31 Jul 2017 -
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So Happy It Hurts by Anneliese Mackintosh
Roping together Ottila McGregor’s struggle to quit alcohol, recover from her father’s death, support her mentally ill sister and form a relations... Read more »| 26 Jul 2017 -
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Tin Man by Sarah Winman
It starts with a painting, selected as a prize at a small town raffle, mainly to the disarray of the men shouting for the whisky. A seemingly innocuous event... Read more »| 21 Jul 2017 -
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How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus
Ellie is ten years old. She learns five new words a week and knows that stories can keep you from drowning. She doesn’t know where they have taken her ... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017
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The Secret Life by Andrew O'Hagan
How does the internet disrupt our sense of self? Where does human personality and contradiction fit into the big stories of the age – and does it matte... Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
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Swimmer Among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor
Short stories have a tendency to titillate but ultimately disappoint; by their very nature, they seem designed to be unfinished fragments of another world. W... Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
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Broken River by J. Robert Lennon
"A small house, in the woods, far from anything fun." When Karl and Eleanor uproot from Brooklyn for a fresh start in upstate New York, their new fixer-upper... Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
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Every Fox is a Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
Robert is an unintentional killer. Not only did he fatally elbow his twin sister out of their mother’s womb, he is also responsible for the death of hi... Read more »| 29 Jun 2017 -
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Walls Come Tumbling Down by Daniel Rachel
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the formation of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge across two decades where artists and activists joined forces to ma... Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
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Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays by Tom McCarthy
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish is the first collection of essays from Tom McCarthy, a novelist twice nominated for the Man Booker prize for C and Satin Island... Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
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Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
Nothing to learn but plenty to love about Murakami's latest anti-machismo collection. Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
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Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Flights sets out as a dissection of modern travel, and becomes a diagnosis of the ancient human compulsion to move about. It is a loose travelogue, a collect... Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
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You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood
You Don’t Know Me is a sharp, enticing, and thought provoking debut novel. The book begins with the evidence in a court case against a young male from ... Read more »| 24 May 2017