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With spring on the horizon here in the UK, perhaps more in hope than in reality after last week’s storms, I’m starting March’s paperback preview with two books that should raise a smile. Set in a small American town, Katherine Heiny’s Early Morning Riser follows Jane who meets the handsome Duncan when she locks herself […]
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I couldn’t resist that jacket which I spotted on Twitter earlier in the year accompanied by complimentary comments about the book by people whose opinions I trust. The Inverts is Crystal Jeans’ first novel from a large publisher having had two published by Welsh indie Honno Press. With luck, if this one is as successful
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No contest for the book with which to kick off this second instalment of April’s new fiction. I reviewed Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13 four years ago beginning with a paean of praise for this writer who seems to excel himself with each new book. Impossible, then, to resist reading Lean Fall Stand as soon as
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