Book Reviews
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Book Reviews
By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Ávila Laurel
This reads a bit like a short story cycle. An episode swells and lapses, another swells in turn. By Night the Mountain Burns is told orally, through some lit... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
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Perfidia by James Ellroy
Corruption, racism, murder, misogyny: Perfidia is a 700 page thrasher of a novel, delivered in Ellroy’s feverish staccato sentences and telegrammatic s... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
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Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor has previously suggested that Nigerian storytelling requires no separation of the mystical and the mundane, perhaps explaining the potent blen... Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
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The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Michel Faber’s latest and, according to the author, last novel – following Under the Skin, which was recently adapted into a celebrated film star... Read more »| 24 Oct 2014 -
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Rogues by George RR Martin & Gardner Dozois
Thanks to Game of Thrones, George RR Martin has leapt from fantasy ghetto to mainstream. The same can’t be said of Gardner Dozois, although the multi-a... Read more »| 03 Oct 2014 -
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Cold City by Cathy McSporran
Do you believe that different realities can intersect? In her debut novel, Cathy McSporran has created two worlds, which protagonist Susan flips between. It&... Read more »| 02 Oct 2014
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Furies: A Poetry Anthology of Women Warriors edited by Eve Lacey
The Furies are infernal goddesses of justice and vengeance, daughters of Gaia and punishers of wrongs. In For Books’ Sake’s first anthology &ndas... Read more »| 01 Oct 2014 -
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The Surfacing by Cormac James
We start with the colour of mud and mustard – streams running through the white-out of the icy universe in which we encounter The Impetus for the first... Read more »| 30 Sep 2014 -
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IDP: 2043
Commemorating the Edinburgh International Book Festival's 30th Birthday, IDP: 2043 harnesses the talents of ten acclaimed writers and artists to tell the sto... Read more »| 29 Sep 2014 -
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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Already hailed as a classic of the genre, H is for Hawk is a rich blend of memoir, biography and natural history. Broken by the grief of her father’s d... Read more »| 04 Sep 2014 -
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Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
Hard to believe half a century’s passed since the publication of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems – so named because most of the book was w... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
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Werner Herzog – A Guide for The Perplexed by Paul Cronin
As one might expect from a 493-page conversation with the filmmaker Werner Herzog, the most explosive moments come in the form of confrontations with his cul... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
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Flanagan's Run by Tom McNab
Got post-Commonwealth Games blues? Don’t worry, you can get your fix of Scottish sporting prowess with Tom McNab’s classic novel Flanagan’s... Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
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The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi
With The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi set a new standard for science fiction that dared to imagine a post-human future. With its sequel, The Fractal Prince... Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
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The Table of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips
Everyone’s heard of the Knights of the Round Table, but tucked away in the draughtiest corner of Camelot’s hall is the rarely-mentioned Table of ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014