Book Reviews
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Book Reviews
This Must Be The Place by Maggie O'Farrell
This Must Be the Place, the seventh novel from veteran chronicler of human emotion and relationships Maggie O’Farrell, follows the meandering life of D... Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
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Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes
Martin MacInnes’ aggressively postmodern detective tale takes place in an unnamed South American country, as an unnamed inspector tries to solve the ca... Read more »| 22 Nov 2016 -
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A Portable Shelter by Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan returns with A Portable Shelter where imagination meets life's inevitable harshness. Read more »| 04 Nov 2016 -
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Crash Land by Doug Johnstone
Finn Sullivan, an idealistic and headstrong university student, has his life turned on its head after showing his chivalrous side in the defence of a strange... Read more »| 04 Nov 2016 -
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Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas
This collection of short stories is bizarre, and that’s entirely the point. We witness a dinner party with Margeurite Duras, our narrator hopelessly in... Read more »| 03 Nov 2016 -
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Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami
Music for Murakami is little less than a religion, a major part of his personal life and a vital ingredient in the recipe for his now world-famous prose. The... Read more »| 28 Oct 2016
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Home and Away by Karl Ove Knausgård & Frederik Ekelund
'Hi there, I’m Karl Ove Knausgård and welcome to my crib...' The Norwegian literary sensation teams up with Frederik Ekelund to reflect on celebrity, friendship, and football Read more »| 27 Oct 2016 -
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Disappearing Glasgow by Chris Leslie
There’s something about a still image of something gone that’s truly haunting. Perhaps to do with the age we live in, where everything is fast-mo... Read more »| 24 Oct 2016 -
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Old Buildings in North Texas by Jen Waldo
A lot of Jen Waldo’s debut novel takes place out on the porch of Olivia’s mother’s house. Having flown from the mundanity and small-mindedn... Read more »| 13 Oct 2016 -
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I'll Sell You a Dog by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Humour, according to Juan Pablo Villalobos, is 'a weapon against power'. It was this principal that animated the Mexican writer's widely acclaimed first two ... Read more »| 13 Oct 2016 -
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Ten Days by Gillian Slovo
To read Gillian Slovo’s latest novel Ten Days after the summer of 2016 is a strange thing. The novel, just now released in paperback, was originally pu... Read more »| 28 Sep 2016 -
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The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Casting agents are surely already circling the lead role in the inevitable screen version of this, Eimar McBride's exceptional follow-up to her 2013 debut A ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2016 -
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The Fat Artist and Other Stories by Benjamin Hale
Building on the success from his award winning first novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Benjamin Hale brings something delightful and disturbing ... Read more »| 07 Sep 2016 -
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Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi
This slim volume is such a harrowing experience, some may balk at continuing once the fate of the titular Eve becomes clear. Translated from Mauritian writer... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
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Turning Blue by Benjamin Myers
The new book from last year's Portico Prize winner is a tour de force of stark horror writing Read more »| 05 Sep 2016