Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsDetroit '67 by Stuart Cosgrove
Stuart Cosgrove's immaculately researched account of a year in the life of the Motor City manages a delicate balancing act. While his love for the ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Book ReviewsA Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh
By the end of the first chapter of Irvine Welsh's new book, Edinburgh cab driver ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson has managed to secure himself a ten grand d... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
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The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
The latest novel from this Nobel Prize-winning writer examines a web of corruption that extends from the world of business to the heart of family life. There... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
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The Honours by Tim Clare
Tim Clare is a stand-up poet and the author of award-winning memoir We Can’t All Be Astronauts. His debut novel, The Honours, is a tightly pl... Read more »| 27 Mar 2015 -
Book ReviewsBlack Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
This true-crime classic reveals Scorsese’s The Departed as slight exaggeration rather than full-blown fabrication. His Frank Costello was, if anything,... Read more »| 27 Mar 2015 -
Book ReviewsGirl in a Band by Kim Gordon
Chiefly famous as the bass player and co-vocalist for defunct New York post-punkers Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon wrote this memoir in the wake of her split from T... Read more »| 11 Mar 2015
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The Well by Catherine Chanter
The Well opens with a woman under house arrest. Ruth, our protagonist and narrator, is restricted to her farm in Wales. Named The Well, it is beautiful, lone... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
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Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
This is a gorgeous, crisp little thing. And although Signs... is no epic – accounting for chapter breaks it clocks in at under 100 short pages&nbs... Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
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The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón by Carlos Gamerro
Ernesto Marroné is a corporate warrior, a sales samurai who takes How to Win Friends and Influence People as his Bushido code. Even as his countrymen ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
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Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
Ghettoside, that wonderful neologism, forms the title of this dark and murderous LA noir. The only problem being that it’s 100% real. LA Times reporte... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Push: Best of the First 10 Issues edited by Joe England
The first 10 issues of the litzine Push are collected here and given a wonderful, inflamatory introduction by The Football Factory author John King. It acts ... Read more »| 12 Feb 2015 -
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The Myth of Brilliant Summers by Austin Collings
Austin Collings’s collection of short stories spans imaginary child murders, the inertia of hopeless job seeking and the mundaneness of teenage boyhood... Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
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A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
There’s nothing vainglorious in this, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest. It's a very American thing: there’s Abby and Red Whitshank, ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2015 -
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The Longest Fight by Emily Bullock
Set against the backdrop of gritty post-war London, The Longest Fight tells the story of former boxer Jack Munday. As a teenager, Jack had no optio... Read more »| 02 Feb 2015 -
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My Dear Bessie by Chris Barker and Bessie Moore, edited by Simon Garfield
We’ve had a glimpse of this captivating love story before. A scant selection of the wartime letters between Chris Barker and Bessie Moore were interlea... Read more »| 02 Feb 2015