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Laura Lamont’s Life In Pictures by Emma Straub
What attracts people to fame? Narcissism? Feelings of inadequacy? A need to be loved? For Laura Lamont, it’s all these things; but it wasn’t always. Laura Lamont the movie star begins life as Elsa...
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Review: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
I think it is far to say that in the time since it has been published, less than a month, Burial Rites has become a bit of a ‘sensation’. It is everywhere, and everyone seems to be talking about it. …...
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Re-Reading: How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
This article contains spoilers about key plot points that you will not want to find out if you have not read this book. Or you might want to, but I thought I’d let you know. Recently I wrote about...
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The Ladies of the House by Molly McGrann
The Ladies of the House has had a lot of hype around it, and is a big new title for Picador (a publisher I’ve found to be reliably quite good). The cover alone intrigued me when I saw it shared over...
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A Little Life is a little challenge
There is a LOT of buzz and hype around A Little Life, the second novel from American author Hanya Yanagihara, which would usually put me off – but this book genuinely appealed to me and I felt a...
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The Sense of an Elephant by Marco Missiroli (tr. Stephen Twilley)
A rare deviation from me here – I actually read and am actually reviewing an unsolicited review copy! I know, world gone mad. I usually leave these to mould on the shelf before they get passed on to a...
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Reading and watching: Room by Emma Donoghue
Room is one of those books that ’caused a stir’ when it came out, and everyone was talking about it. I always meant to read it, but never got round to it; and then the movie trailers came out. It was...
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New Fiction: The Last Photograph by Emma Chapman
As some readers may know, I was a big fan of Emma Chapman’s first novel How To Be A Good Wife. It was a taught thriller with wonderful characters and plotting, and though dark in subject matter it was...
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Most Anticipated Upcoming Books
I try to read a mixture of old and new books, and often find myself reading ‘new’ books some time after they come out, purely because I always have so many books I want to read that I rarely get to...
View ArticleI Love You Too Much by Alicia Drake (2018)
This gorgeous little book appeared somewhere on Twitter (or Instagram?) recently, and the yellow cover caught my eye. It intrigued me. The cover, the title, the fact that it was a debut novel - all...
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