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0 Comments in moderati Yet another thin month for paperbacks, only one of which I’ve read, starting with a novel from an author whose name may well be familiar from news updates. For several years Andrey Kurkov was the go-to man for the British media wanting comment on Ukraine. His new novel Jimi Hendrix Live […]
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Just a handful of paperbacks for November, none of which I’ve read although I did toy with Laurie Canciani’s The Insomnia Museum before taking off on holiday earlier in the year then somehow never got around to reading it. It’s about seventeen-year-old Anna who has spent the last twelve years building the titular museum with
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Top of my August list has to be Nicole Krauss’ Forest Dark. I remember taking The History of Love on holiday one year and losing myself in it; one of those books that stayed with me for some time. I wasn’t quite so enamoured with Great House but hopes are high for this one which
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