Literary
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A SWORD OF BRONZE AND ASHES by Anna Smith-Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
Readers of Shauna Lawless and Thilde Kold Holdt will love this Celtic-inflected adventure by critically acclaimed, grimdark epic fantasy novelist, Anna Smith Spark. A Sword of ... -
SHARK HEART: A LOVE STORY by Emily Habeck (BOOK REVIEW)
“Are we all just actors, performing some unbound art form for God, the audience of space? I wish I could have seen then what I know ... -
MOTHTOWN by Caroline Hardaker (BOOK REVIEW)
“Melt everything down to a great white blank. Eat anything that oozes out. No one knows how it all goes in Mothtown, and no one ever ... -
A WOMAN OF THE SWORD by Anna Smith Spark (Book Review)
A Woman of the Sword is set on the many-nationed continent of Irlast which featured in Smith Spark’s debut Empires of Dust trilogy. That trilogy followed ... -
THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA by Shehan Karunatilaka (BOOK REVIEW)
“Being a ghost isn’t that different to being a war photographer. Long periods of boredom interspersed with short bursts of terror. As action-packed as your post-death ... -
CHILDREN OF PARADISE by Camilla Grudova (BOOK REVIEW)
“Living in the past in the same place I have to be in the present, my mind often feels like a double exposed photograph, and the ... -
ANIMALS AT NIGHT by Naomi Booth (BOOK REVIEW)
“They’re getting drunk and reminiscing about their old lives, about gigs and parties and festivals on faraway beaches where they’d danced and played like animals at ... -
UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch (BOOK REVIEW)
“We all live in the interstices of each other’s lives, and we would all get a surprise if we could see everything.” Under The Net (1954) ... -
THE PASSION ACCORDING TO G.H. by Clarice Lispector, translated by Idra Novey (BOOK REVIEW)
“Give me your unknown hand, since life is hurting me, and I don’t know how to speak – reality is too delicate, only reality is delicate, ... -
THE GOOD NEIGHBOURS by Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Grandma says all fairy mythology comes from the same root, like religion. That it’s one big idea that gets pulled in different directions depending on where ...
