Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsWhat the River Washed Away by Muriel Mharie Macleod
Life as a black woman in 1920s Louisiana, battling the double-barreled bigotry of race and gender, African-American, but without a true home in either, torn ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
Book ReviewsThe Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov
The Gardener from Ochakov is the latest offering from Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. The darkly comic novel centres on the misadventures of Igor Andreevna w... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
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Snake Road by Sue Peebles
Snake Road is a family drama focusing on the lives of three women across three generations of the Copella family. In the top floor of the family home, grandm... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
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Four New Words For Love by Michael Cannon
"Things don't cost what you give for them, they cost what you give up to get them." So says Gina, an intelligent and resourceful young Glaswegian, who has pu... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013 -
Book ReviewsThe House of Journalists by Tim Finch
Located in a London terrace, the House of Journalists is a refuge for writers exiled from their home nations due to conflicts of interest with their oppressi... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013 -
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Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach
Leila is a socially isolated young woman who lives alone after the death of her mother. When the charismatic leader of an internet forum contacts her with a ... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013
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The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman
A product of a post-feminist, politically-correct upbringing, Nathaniel Piven is conscientious, intellectual and successful. He is also self-absorbed, snobbi... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013 -
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Office Girl by Joe Meno
Joe Meno's sixth novel might act as an effective acid test for determining hipster tolerance: one protagonist spends his time recording the sounds made by sn... Read more »| 20 Jul 2013 -
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Unstated: Scottish Writers on Independence
Unstated: Scottish Writers on Independence contains 27 essays by writers with varying attitudes towards the question of independence. Unfortunately upon publ... Read more »| 11 Jul 2013 -
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Taipei by Tao Lin
TaiPei is an unflinching and hate-filled account of a group of people with a commitment to nothing greater than themselves, written in a purposefully mundane... Read more »| 04 Jul 2013 -
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Plan D by Simon Urban
Plan D imagines a modern day East Germany in which the Berlin Wall never fell. Trapped inside the socialist state, citizens are subject to the same clo... Read more »| 01 Jul 2013 -
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The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto
Winner of the Herralde Prize for the Spanish original, The Blue Hour is an unconventional love story set against the backdrop of a country recovering from a ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2013 -
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Cotton Tenants by James Agee and Walker Evans
James Agee was a protean genius, mastering every form he tried, whether poetry, film criticism, the novel, screenwriting, or journalism. But in his greatest ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2013 -
Book ReviewsDrowntown: Book One, by Robbie Morrison and Jim Murray
Co-creator of Nikolai Dante and Japanese Dredd-spinoff Shimura, Robbie Morrison has been making an impact on UK and international comics since... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
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The Quarry by Iain Banks
Eighteen-year-old Kit and his dad, Guy, live in a house on the edge of an expanding quarry. Kit has Asperger’s; Guy has cancer. It’s quite funny,... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013