Atlantic
Spooner
A thin line separates oddity from craziness! Spooner is a young boy and later man who follows the dictates of…
Skylark Farm
Editors' choice
Arslan’s luminous debut novel tells the unbearable story of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey. Ethnic Armenian Yerwant Arslanian…
My Mother’s Lovers
In a recent talk at the University of East Anglia, Christopher Hope described Africa as “a great comic opera” which…
White Ghost Girls
Editors' choice
Some “literary” novels contain rich, descriptive language that might be enjoyable to read but has no real bearing on…
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