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Love Is Blind

By William Boyd - Published 2018

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Love is Blind is a love story that criss-crosses the globe in the last years of the 19th century and the early years ...Read Review

Washington Black

By Esi Edugyan - Published 2018

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Literary

The future looks bleak for Washington Black, for what does an 11-year-old slave on a Barbados sugar plantation have to look forward to ...Read Review

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

By Richard Flanagan - Published 2014 Published 2014-08-25

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Literary

“Why at the beginning… is there always light?” muses Dorrigo Evans, recalling, as a one-year-old in 1915, the sun flooding a church hall in ...Read Review