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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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Review: Banyan Moon - Thao Thai
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Quercus Books, June 2023 Rating: 4.5/5 stars “I come from a tribe of women who are ravaged and...
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Review: Little Monsters - Adrienne Brodeur
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Simon & Schuster, June 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "He didn’t understand why these bittersweet...
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Review: The Deluge - Stephen Markley
Genre: Literary Fiction, Climate Fiction Published: Simon & Schuster, January 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars "I put in earbuds and listened to...
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Review: Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Faber&Faber, May 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars "Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one...
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Review: Tides -Sara Freeman
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Granta Books, January 2022 My Rating: 3/5 stars "If you can't let go of anything, let go of...
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Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabriella Zevin
Genre: Contemporary Fiction Published: Knopf, July 2022 My Rating: 2/5 stars “What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow,...
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Review: Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Faber & Faber, October 2022 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “A good story doesn’t just copy life, it pushes...
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Review: Brother & Sister Enter the Forest - Richard Mirabella
Genre: Literary fiction Published: Catapult/Dreamscape Audio, March 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Richard Mirabella delivers an impressive...
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Review: Shy - Max Porter
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Faber & Faber, April 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars “The night is huge and it hurts.” Since I’ve enjoyed...
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Review: In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
Genre: Literary Fiction, Sci-fi/Speculative Published: Atlantic Books, February 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “A family is a group of...
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Review: Place of Cool Water - Ndirangu Githaiga
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Bon Esprit Books, August 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars “I see you’re one of those people who feel they...
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Review: Monstrilio - Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Genre: Speculative horror Published: Zando Projects, March 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars "He wasn’t Monstrilio anymore, but he wasn’t...
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Review: Catfish Rolling - Clara Kumagai
Genre: Magical Realism, Science fiction, Grief Published: Zephyr, March 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars, potential new favourite "In the zone,...
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Review: Violets - Kyung-Sook Shin
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Feminist Press 2022, First published January 2001 My Rating: 5/5 stars “This desire grew slowly,...
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Review: Flights - Olga Tokarczuk
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Riverhead Books 2018, originally pubished as Bieguni in 2007. My Rating: DNF “Move. Get going. Blessed...
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Review: Ghost Music - An Yu
Genre: literary fiction Published: Harvill Secker (EU) & Grove Press (USA), November 2022 My Rating: 5/5 stars “Loss came in all shapes...
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Review: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on - Franny Choi
Genre: Poetry Published: Ecco Press, November 2022 My rating: 3.5/5 stars "By the time the apocalypse began, the world had already...
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Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Genre: magical realism, literary fiction Published: Picador Press, September 2019, (first published December 2015 in the original...
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Review: Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
Genre: Fantasy, Retelling Published: Redbook/Orbit, April 2022 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “I was born on the full moon under an auspicious...
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