Book Reviews
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Book Reviews
List of the Lost by Morrissey
Never meet your heroes. And now, never read their books it seems. I have, and heaven knows I’m miserable now. In List of the Lost, Morrissey –&nb... Read more »| 26 Oct 2015 -
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Time to rediscover Randall P. McMurphy, as Ken Kesey's classic novel is treated to a folio edition. Read more »| 08 Oct 2015 -
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Bream Gives Me Hiccups, by Jesse Eisenberg
Millennial actor-turned-author Jesse Eisenberg plays to the crowd in this short story collection. Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
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City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Garth Risk Hallberg's first full novel, City on Fire, has been compared to Don DeLillo's masterpiece, Underworld Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
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Endgame by Ahmet Altan
Turkish author and journalist Ahmet Altan makes his English language debut with Endgame, originally published in Turkish as Son Oyun Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
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The Life-Writer by David Constantine
Frank O' Connor Short Story Award winner David Constantine returns with new novel The Life-Writer Read more »| 02 Oct 2015
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Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
Les Murray's new short story collection is sumptuously satisfying for the patient reader. Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
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The Seed Beneath the Snow by Joanna Ramsey
With The Seed Beneath the Snow, Joanna Ramsey chronicles the later years of George Mackay Brown. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Wind/Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
With Wind/Pinball, Japanese author Haruki Murakami finally grants his first two novels a UK release. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
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On Writing by Charles Bukowski
‘I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter,’ wrote Charles Bukowski in late 1960. But he was only just getting going: the letters ... Read more »| 28 Aug 2015 -
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Requiem for a Soldier by Oleg Pavlov
A grotesque, caricatural portrait of the last days of the Soviet Empire is offered by Pavlov in his latest work to be translated into English. Alyosha, ... Read more »| 04 Aug 2015 -
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Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano dedicates this book to his armed Carabinieri bodyguards and the 51,000 hours they’ve spent together since previous work Gomorrah sent h... Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
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The Whispering Swarm by Michael Moorcock
Set in London in the 1950s, Michael Moorcock's The Whispering Swarm blends autobiography and fantasy – aiming, he says, for a sort of book he... Read more »| 03 Aug 2015 -
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Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
We must declare a conflict of interests here. Author Sean Michaels was, once upon a time, a writer for The Skinny, so a sense of solidarity has us willing a ... Read more »| 31 Jul 2015 -
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The Bride Stripped Bare by Rachel Kendall
In the second of the 23 short stories of Rachel Kendall’s debut collection, a group of horror enthusiasts who have met on the internet gather to watch ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2015