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Review: I Cheerfully Refuse - Leif Enger
Genre: Literary fiction, dystopian Published: Grove Press, April 2nd 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars “If you’re heading out to sea to find the...
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Review: The Cemetery of Untold Stories - Julia Alvarez
Genre: Literary Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Algonquin Books/Recorded Books Audio, April 2024 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “It’s a...
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Review: Fervor - Toby Lloyd
Genre: Literary, Contemporary Fiction Published: Avid Readers Press, March 2024 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “We have arrived at a paradox. To...
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Review: Gogmagog - Jeff Noon & Steve Beard
Genre: Fantasy, New Weird Fiction Published: Angry Robot, February 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars This was a weird one, but in the best way...
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Literary Favourites (Updated 2024)
For this all-time-favourite series, I’ve made an attempt to narrow each genre-list down to a top 10, and have managed to do so for the...
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Review: Fray - Chris Carse Wilson
Genre: Literary fiction Published: HarperNorth, January 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars "Breathing in enough to be given life, softening the...
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Review: The House of Broken Bricks - Fiona Williams
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Faber & Faber, January 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “The smell of rain moves through the house. There’s...
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Review: What Willow Says - Lynn Buckle
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Epoque Press, May 2021 My Rating: 3/5 stars “We live and walk upon these stories. She, least least,...
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Review: The Collected Regrets of Clover - Mikki Brammer
Genre: Contemporary Published: St. Martins Press, May 2023 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “Grief is just love looking for a place to settle.” The...
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Review: Orbital - Samantha Harvey
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Jonathan Cape & RB Media, December 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis: A snapshot of one day in the...
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Review: Life at the Precipice - R. F. Vincent
Genre: Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction Published: FriesenPress (independently published), July 2023 My Rating: 4.5 stars R.F....
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Review: On The Isle of Antioch - Amin Maalouf
Genre: literary fiction, Published: World Editions Publishing, December 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars On The Isle of Antioch is an ambitious...
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Review: A Haunting on the Hill - Elizabeth Hand
Genre: Gothic horror Published: Mulholland Books, October 3rd 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Do you know why certain houses make people...
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Review: Night Side of the River - Jeanette Winterson
Genre: Short stories, Literary horror Published: Atlantic Grove Press, October 24t 2023 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars With a seasoned name like...
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Review: Swim Home to the Vanished - Brendan Shay Basham
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Harper Collins, August 2023 My rating: 4.5/5 stars "When you lose someone close, you travel to the...
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Review: Summer Fishing in Lapland - Juhani Karila
Genre: magical realism Published: Pushkin Press, July 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summer Fishing in Lapland has been out for a few years...
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Review: Assassin of Reality - Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Genre: Fantasy Published: Harper Voyager 2023, originally published by Эксмо in 2021 in the original Russian. My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “How...
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Review: Oh God, The Sun Goes - David Connor
Genre: Literary Fiction, Speculative Published: Melville House, August 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars Have you ever read a book that’s so...
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Review: Lump - Nathan Whitlock
Genre: Contemporary Fiction Published: Dundurn Press, August 2023 My Rating: 1/5 stars Nathan Whitlocks latest novel is blurbed as “a...
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Review: The Centre - Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Genre: Literary Fiction, thriller Published: Gillian Flynn Books, July 2023 Rating: 4/5 stars As the dark-academia-craze of the 2020’s...
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