Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsFashion 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 -
Book ReviewsThe 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 -
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Gutter 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 -
Book ReviewsPlay 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 -
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What 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 -
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The 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