Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov is about life in a war zone, specifically the zone of Donbas which in 2014,…
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When I took Orbital by Samantha Harvey with me to read on a train journey, Jack said, “You’ll have finished…
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James by Percival Everett is the retelling of a story first published in 1884 – Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain…
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How many times have we seen the imperative ‘read carefully’ on medication instructions or an installation guide? I can only speak…
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Small Island by Andrea Levy is essentially about the Windrush generation and how their lives were affected by their decision…
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The world we encounter in Paul Lynch’s 2023 Booker Prize Winner, Prophet Song is familiar, traumatic, and terrifying. And it…
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M emphis by Tara M. Stringfellow is a glorious homage to the strength, beauty, and power of black women. Told…
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Recently, there have been a couple of TV adaptations of favourite books and, although both were very enjoyable, there was…
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Browsing the displays in Waterstones a few weeks ago, Jack read out the opening paragraph of The Heart’s Invisible Furies:…
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