Books Editorial
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Swirl: Overcoming Overthinking
Andy Walton & Gina Yu - Swirl is a short – I’m talking 24 pages – booklet designed, according to the blurb at the back, by “award-winning creatives to provide straightforward ...
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There There
Tommy Orange - Tommy Orange’s debut novel is a multi-generational fresco examining the modern day Native American experience. It features the voices of 12 different characters...
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The Shepherd’s Hut
Tim Winton - Aussie Tim Winton has twice before been nominated for the Booker Prize and he could quite easily bag another nod for his latest novel. It concerns teenage boy Jax...
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A Million Drops
Victor del Arbol - This lengthy literary thriller is a real epic, which begins in Barcelona circa 2002 with Gonzalo Gil, a going-through-the-motions lawyer disaffected with bo...
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Ironopolis
Glen James Brown - This ambitious debut novel from Durham born author Glen James Brown is set on Teesside and focuses on the Burn council estate, which is in the process of be...
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Tales from the Leaking Boot
Matt Black - Matt Black is a former Derbyshire Poet Laureate and while performing at the Cheltenham Literature Festival a few years back he got into conversation with Thom the...
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All Gates Open: The Story of Can
Rob Young - Can were the avant-garde German band who drew their members from students studying under Stockhausen; the free-jazz scene; and sundry waifs and strays busking thei...
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Force of Nature
Jane Harper - Jane Harper scored a big hit with her debut novel, the crime thriller Dry, last year and Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk returns once again for another case set ...
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Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
James Bloodworth - In all the chatter during the past year or so about falling, and, indeed, record employment levels, there hasn’t been nearly enough discussion about what ki...
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Three Blue Beans in a Blue Bladder: Another Year in Haiku
Hamish Ironside - In 2005 Hamish Ironside wrote one haiku a day throughout the year and the best of them were collected in Our Sweet Little Time, which was published to much a...
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Breaking Mum and Dad: The Insider's Guide to Parenting Anxiety
Anna Williamson - If I weren’t parenting my own adorable mini-me of carnage, I would have laughed out loud at the hilarity of this book. After reading it however, my own ball ...
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All The Beautiful Lies
Peter Swanson - In his three previous books Peter Swanson has demonstrated a deft hand in writing crime novels that are plotted with a clockwork like intricacy, his characters...
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Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday - A character towards the end of this debut novel declares: “We have very little choice other than to spend our waking hours trying to sort out and make sense of...
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