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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Triflers Need Not Apply by Camilla Bruce is historic fiction set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries and…
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is set entirely and exclusively in a hotel. But before you conclude that…
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I’ve heard it said that Gal Gadot’s 2017 Wonder Woman is an amazing role model for women. I disagree. To…
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A nthony Doerr’s writing makes me want to give up any pretence at being a writer and find something else…
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