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14th January 2012
Shortlisted in the 2011 Booker Prize, and the CWG Gold Dagger 2011, A.D. Miller's Snowdrops got close to pulling off a couple of awards last year. It's quietly gripping as it...
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30th December 2011
Longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010, Emma Donaghue's Room lives up to the expectations of its plaudits with ease...
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Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow
1st October 2011
From the look of the front cover, you might be fooled into thinking that Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow is a fun holiday read, but nothing can be further from...
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12th July 2011
Ian McEwan's Solar is darkly comic, interesting and absorbing in parts, but overall a bit unfulfilling unless seen as a warning against selfish egoistic...
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Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm, published in 1932, is a satirical novel by Stella Gibbons. The book is a blatant parody of the rural novel, a genre which enjoyed great...
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The Wilderness, by Samantha Harvey
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey is an interesting insight into the nature and reality of Alzheimer’s disease. Beautifully written and filled with engaging...
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The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett's books kept me occupied for hours on end when I was a kid and returning to the brilliant Discworld with The Wee Free Men was genuinely...
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The Pleasure of My Company, by Steve Martin - The Man With Two Brains
The Pleasure of My Company gave me a whole new appreciation for Steve Martin. Having faded out of the limelight, it turns out that he's been busy writing all this time...
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Alone in Berlin, by Hans Fallada
Apart from the brilliantly interwoven storyline and the strength of the characters, what’s truly amazing about Alone in Berlin is that Hans Fallada wrote it just...
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6th July 2010
With Kraken however, Mieville has returned to similar pastures to his debut novel, King Rat, in which a seedy underworld lurks beneath, or rather parallel to modern day London. It is...
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The New York trilogy by Paul Auster - dark, hollow and introspective
24th March 2010
Featuring as one of the characters in this trilogy of stories about identity, Paul weaves a web of intrigue, emptiness and self examination...
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The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway - the perfect novella
3rd Feb 2010
Every word, sentence and paragraph is faultless. The story of Santiago and his life as an old luckless fisherman in Cuba...
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Loaded with highs - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
17th Dec 2009
A crazed, depraved, shocking, insightful, uncontrolled, controlled and studied prose roman a clef...
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