Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsWolf Winter by Cecila Ekbäck
Rather than being a translation, Cecilia Ekbäck’s debut was written in English straight off, but the rhythm can feel as if someone has Tippex... Read more »| 30 Dec 2014 -
Book ReviewsCrow Bait by Douglas Skelton
A gory and razor-sharp crime novel from the start, Douglas Skelton’s Crow Bait moves at breakneck speed like a getaway car on the dark streets of Glasg... Read more »| 08 Dec 2014 -
Book ReviewsAmnesia by Peter Carey
Peter Carey is one of the few writers you could expect to pull off a sprawling tale about hackers, global capitalism and Australian politics. He’s got ... Read more »| 04 Dec 2014 -
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N0S 4R2 by Joe Hill
All books are page-turners by default, how else might they be read? But it’s the velocity of turning which provides some sort of measure. N0S 4R2 lives... Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Book ReviewsThe Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Hitting Japan in 2008, The Strange Library spins a dark modern-day fairytale about a boy who finds himself drawn into the shady labyrinth beneath his local l... Read more »| 02 Dec 2014 -
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Stone Soup by Paula Rego and Cas Willing
Uncountable variations already exist of this tale of supposed Portuguese origins, with popular retellings coming from China and Ireland and ‘Nail Soup&... Read more »| 24 Nov 2014
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The Land Agent by J. David Simons
The Land Agent is a story of diaspora. In 1919, a young Polish Jew named Lev flees persecution while an idealistic Scottish woman looks to begin again. Like ... Read more »| 05 Nov 2014 -
Book ReviewsThis is Scotland: A Country in Words and Pictures by Daniel Gray and Alan McCredie
Photographer Alan McCredie and writer Daniel Gray have merged talents to bring you the travelogue This is Scotland. It’s a flirty glance at a dozen are... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
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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