Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsHalf the Kingdom by Lore Segal
In 1985, The New York Times declared that Lore Segal was "closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel." Not only is this bewildering, it's harmful... Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
Book ReviewsBurial Rites by Hannah Kent
Comparisons to Margaret Atwood come as high praise and raise expectations, but it would be almost impossible to read Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites without... Read more »| 01 Oct 2013 -
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Brand New Ancients by Kate Tempest
The transition from rapper and performance poet to page poet is not an easy one, but Kate Tempest has managed it with graceful ease. Brand New Ancients is th... Read more »| 30 Sep 2013 -
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Book of the Month: A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava
This is a defiant, digressive debut. De La Pava released it online in 2008, after years of rejection at the hands of publishers. And as the glowing online re... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
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Fashion Beast by Alan Moore, Malcolm McLaren, Antony Johnston, Facundo Percio
During his career Alan Moore has displayed many writerly talents, not least luck in being paired with equally talented collaborators. Though Moore’s au... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
Book ReviewsThe Son by Philipp Meyer
Rumours of Philipp Meyer's method approach to research have swirled around his second novel, The Son. At August's Edinburgh International Book Festival ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013
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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
MaddAddam is the last instalment in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake and continued with The Y... Read more »| 23 Sep 2013 -
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The Human Part by Kari Hotakainen
In its opening paragraph, The Human Part’s octogenarian protagonist Salme dismisses the world of fiction in its entirety. Fiction means lies, lies are ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Longlisted for the European Prize for Literature, The Sorrow of Angels is the second book in the tragi-comic trilogy from Icelandic author Jón Ka... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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The Guts by Roddy Doyle
Since we first encountered Jimmy Rabbitte, the godfather of The Commitments has acquired a wife, four kids, a dog called Messi and bowel cancer. Characterist... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
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Flesh Wounds by Chris Brookmyre
With Flesh Wounds, Brookmyre returns to the more emotionally nuanced Glasgow crime world of Where the Bodies are Buried and When the Devil Drives (signalled,... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Book ReviewsThe Lure of the Honey Bird by Elizabeth Laird
In turns an account of the cultural heritage of Ethiopia and of its subsequent dissolution and forefeiture by the increasing modernity of the country, The ... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
Book ReviewsGutter 09
The latest crop of new Scottish writing is a bumper one, with an abundance of excellent poems and prose. In the last issue the magazine called for entries in... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
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Play With Me by Michael Pedersen
By turns elegiac, nostalgic, hilarious and deeply serious, Michael Pedersen's debut poetry collection, Play With Me, marks the arrival of an important new vo... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Lolito by Ben Brooks
Lolito, as the title suggests, is about a teenage boy who engages in inappropriate relations with an older woman. Ben Brooks’ novel is told from the po... Read more »| 12 Aug 2013