Book Reviews
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The Secret River by Kate Grenville
subjects such as the breakdown of family relations and the stifling atmosphere of eighteenth century London are described without qualms or precedent Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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House of Meetings by Martin Amis
an astonishing command of grammar and a vocabulary that the average dictionary would envy Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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The Gift - Lewis Hyde
his examples serve as a fascinating survey of human myth-making Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Scots Who Made America, by Rick Wilson
The first man on the moon was the son of a Scotsman and Uncle Sam himself came from Greenock Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Idea in Stone - Hamish MacDonald (Self-published)
The characters are paper thin, clichéd and unbearable Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Alexander McCall Smith - Dream Angus
Like a fairytale for adults, a light, rose-tinted book that almost passes you by Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Would I be too emphatic in saying that this is one of the best books I have read all year? No, because quite simply it is. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Paul Auster - Travels in the Scriptorium
undoubtedly a return to what Auster does best. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
The subsections, pace and intrigue of the story ensure the reader's attention never wanders Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Shame by Karin Alvtegen
The prose is crisp and the narrative fast paced Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Clear Water - Will Ashon
Ashon's confident, tragicomic prose never falters Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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A.L.I.E.E.E.N. - Lewis Trondheim
If I accept 'A.L.I.E.E.E.N.'s central conceit - that it is an alien comic book, discovered in a crater in the American Catskills - then the first observation... Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Deogratias - J.P. Stassen
it might just change your perception of both comic books and the genocide Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Fate of the Artist - Eddie Campbell
it hardly reads as something soul-baring enough to deserve a larger audience Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Man Who Knew Too Much - David Leavitt
it borrows too heavily from other works to ever really become the unique and accessible biography it aims to be Read more »| 13 Sep 2006