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Slim paperback pickings for July, as is often the case, with just one preview post which includes several books I’ve already read and enjoyed beginning with one with a particular appeal for political obsessives like me. Opening on the day of the 2008 American presidential election, A. M. Homes’ The Unfolding ends on Obama’s first […]
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It’s been a decade since A. M. Homes’ May We Be Forgiven was published so I was more than keen to read The Unfolding, particularly as the blurb suggested a state of the nation novel, although in this case it’s a look back at that state when the seeds of what was to come eight
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The first part of September’s preview began with Kate Atkinsons’s Shrines of Gaiety, an unmissable novel for me, and I’m almost as keen to read A. M. Homes’ The Unfolding, a state of the American nation novel by the sound of it. Stunned by the result of the 2008 election, The Big Guy decides to
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This June is bursting at the seams with tempting paperbacks – enough to fill two long posts – of which I’ve already read and reviewed several beginning with one of my books of last year, Sarah Moss’ Ghost Wall. Longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, Moss’ novel is a powerful exploration of controlling
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Back from my travels (more of which next week) with a look at July’s nicely varied bunch of new titles taking in Native American culture, Indonesian customs and genre-defying Icelandic fiction to name but a few disparate themes. Quite some time ago, having spent several holidays in the Four Corners area of the US, I
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