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The People Speak
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You probably know Colin Firth better as an actor than an author, so it may be no surprise to learn that The People ...Read Review
The Fall of the Stone City
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The Fall of the Stone City is a translation form the Albanian of a short novel by Ismail Kadare, set in Kadare’s ...Read Review
What Dies in Summer
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Wright’s novel can easily be read in a variety of ways. As a Southern Gothic. As a coming-of-age novel. Even as a ...Read Review
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
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The Canongate Myth Series has invited prominent authors to retell myths in modern terms. This entry uses Norse, Icelandic and German myths as ...Read Review
Blow on a Dead Man’s Embers
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The war is over, but it has left its mark on the tiny West Wales village of Non and her family. Men are ...Read Review
Jamrach’s Menagerie
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AdventureHistorical FantasyNautical
Sometimes a novel comes along that one reads simply for the pleasure of enjoying the skill (or is it magic?) with which the ...Read Review
The House of the Mosque
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Like a lovely dream turned nightmare, The House of the Mosque shakes us awake. The author, Kader Abdollah, a pseudonym, paints the picture ...Read Review
Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
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In the last year I’ve reviewed three derivative works of Jane Austen, and in the same period the HNS published upwards of ...Read Review
The Lieutenant
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Kate Grenville is a bestselling Australian author who has already written about her country’s convict past. In The Lieutenant she goes back ...Read Review
The Wettest County in the World
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During the Prohibition era, moonshine flowed freely through the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia, and few bootleggers were more productive, violent, and notable ...Read Review