Books Editorial
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Accidental Street Love
Richard Atkinson - Richard Atkinson can often be found banging out his work at poetry open mic slots around the region, and is part of the Scratch performance group. Charles B...
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Kate Atkinson - Kate Atkinson seems incapable of writing a bad sentence, never mind a bad novel, and she’s on fine form with her latest in which she covers some of the same gr...
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A Ladder to the Sky
John Boyne - When renowned gentleman of letters Erich Ackermann takes a fancy to Maurice Swift, a waiter working in a hotel in Berlin, he tries every way he can to ingratiate ...
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Melmoth
Sarah Perry - Sarah Perry scored a huge hit with her last novel ‘The Essex Serpent’ set in a fictional English village circa the 1890s. Her latest takes place in modern day Pr...
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Normal People
Sally Rooney - With this, and her previous novel, ‘Conversations With Friends’, Sally Rooney appears to have cornered the market in people talking, and not talking, in rooms (...
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Washington Black
Esi Edugyan - The Canadian author Esi Edugyan scored a big hit with her previous novel, ‘Half Blood Blues’, which told the story of black jazz players in the Second World War....
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Never Anyone But You
Rupert Thompson - In Rupert Thompson’s latest novel he fictionalises the lives of two French women who meet when they are teenagers in the early part of the twentieth century....
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Our Friends in Berlin
Anthony Quinn - Anthony Quinn is never more at home than when he’s elbow deep in mid-20thcentury, cake-mix Britain, all turned-up trousers, hair oil and plucky, can-do gels. A...
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Who Is Rich?
Matthew Klam - This debut novel sees Rich Fischer on his annual trip to a New England beachside town where he teaches students how to make their own autobiographical comics ov...
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Your Sincerely, Axl Rose
Steven Storrie - Steven Storrie has won praise for his previous collections of poetry, which offer up snapshots of modern day life with all its attendant disappointments and d...
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A Shot in the Dark
Lynne Truss - Set in 1950s Brighton, Lynne Truss’s latest is subtitled ‘A Constable Twitten Mystery’ and is the first in a mooted series, adapted from her BBC Radio 4 show. Th...
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Mars By 1980: The Story of Electronic Music
David Stubbs - David Stubbs wrote the absorbing Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany and he brings the same amount of knowledge and enthusiasm to his late...
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One Way
S.J.Morden - If you like your science-fiction as down-to-earth (well, down-to-Mars in this case) as possible, then you’ll appreciate the harsh, nuts and bolts integrity of loc...
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