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The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green

The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green: ‘How does someone survive this?’  

Lauren Aliza Green’s debut is one of those novels whose blurb seduced me with a list of comparisons with authors whose names tick my literary boxes. I ought to know better by now although in this case it paid off pretty well. The World After Alice sees the wedding of her best friend to her […]

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Cover image of Junction of Earth and Sky by Susan Butterwieser

Junction of Earth and Sky by Susan Butterwieser: ‘I was wrong, it isn’t a tragedy at all’

I took a punt on Susan Butterwieser’s Junction of Earth and Sky looking for something absorbing but untaxing in the summer heat. The blurb promised a novel spanning six decades and two continents, comparing it with both The Paper Palace and The Dutch House, neither of which sprang to mind for me. Butterweiser’s debut begins

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Cover image for This is Happiness by Niall Willi

Five Summer Books I’ve Read

I always look forward to summer, unfailingly optimistic at the prospect of long days full of light and warmth with perhaps a breeze to cool things down now and again. Living in my part of the world, I should know better. Climate change has also shortened the odds, delivering storms punctuated with brief heatwaves more

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