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Book review: The Promise by Damon Galgut
The Swarts are a family of white South African farmers. The Promise tells their story from the 1980s onwards through…
Book review: Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
I didn’t know anything about John Wilkes Booth apart from the fact that he assassinated Abraham Lincoln, so Booth was…
Book review: French Braid by Anne Tyler
French Braid begins in 2010 as a young couple return on a train from a family visit, discussing their different…
Book review: Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra
In Run and Hide, Arun Dwivedi tells the story of his life and how it intertwines with three other men…
Book review: The Colony by Audrey Magee
Lloyd is travelling to a remote Irish island because he wants to paint the cliffs. He is going in a…
Book review: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
I loved A Little Life so I was looking forward to getting to grips with another big book by Hanya…
Book review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
I’m reposting this review of A Little Life, written before I had a blog, ahead of publication of Hanya Yanagihara’s…
Book review: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Amgash #3)
What a joy it is to have a new Elizabeth Strout novel! This is the third featuring Lucy Barton. Lucy…
Book review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These is just my kind of book, quietly powerful, beautifully told. Bill Furlong is a coal merchant…
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