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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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Review: Daughters of the New Year - E.M. Tran
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Hanover Square Press, October 2022 My Rating: 3/5 stars Daughters of the New Year is the own-voices...

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Review: Seven Empty Houses - Samanta Schweblin
Genre: Short Story Collection, Literary Horror Published: One World Publications (US) & Riverhead Books (UK), October 2022, originally...

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Review: Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng
Genre: Literary Fiction, Dystopian Published: Little Brown UK, October 2022 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars "I'll tell you. But only if you...

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Review: Elena Knows - Claudia Piñeiro
Genre: literary fiction Published: Charco Press, July 2021 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "Is she still a mother now that she doesn't have a...

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Review: The Women Could Fly - Megan Giddings
Genre: Literary Fiction, Dystopian Published: Pan MacMillan, August 2022 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “This is the story of the witch who...

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Review: Venomous Lumpsucker - Ned Beauman
Genre: Speculative fiction Published: Hodder & Stoughton/Sceptre, July 2022 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “This novel is set in the near future....

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Review: The Singer's Gun - Emily St. John Mandel
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Picador Press, April 2015, originally published May 2010 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "Nothing is over yet,...

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Review: The Seawomen - Chloe Timms
Genre: Literary Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Hodder & Stoughton, June 2022 My Rating: 4/5 stars If Kirsty Logan is going to...

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Review: Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies - Maddie Mortimer
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Picador Press (UK) & Scribner (US), June 2022 My Rating: 5/5 stars “Thyme is to chili, parsley,...

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Review: Sea of Tranquillity - Emily St. John Mandel
Genre: Literary Fiction, Sci-fi. Published: Picador Press/Pan MacMillan, April 2022 My Rating: 5/5 stars “It’s shocking to wake up in one...

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Review: The Oceanography of the Moon - Glendy Vanderah
Genre: Contemporary Fiction Published: Lake Union Publishing, March 2022 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars Glendy Vanderah is an author I’ve been...

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Review: Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
The FictionFox reviews Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. 5/5 stars. Many thanks to Picador and the author for providing me with an

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Review: Yerba Buena - Nina LaCour
Genre: Literary Fiction, Adult Contemporary. Published: Flatiron Books, May 31rd 2022 My Rating: 5/5 stars “In the silence that followed...

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Review: How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
Genre: Literary Fiction, Sci-Fi, Short-Stories Published: Bloomsbury Publishing, January 18th 2022 My Rating: 4/5 stars “It’s strange how...

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Review: The Actual Star - Monica Byrne
Genre: Science Fiction Published: Harper Voyager, September 2021 My Rating: 2/5 stars I feel very conflicted on how to rate The Actual...

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Review: The Tidal Zone - Sarah Moss
Gerne: literary fiction, contemporary Published: Granta Books, July 2016 My Rating: 5/5 stars “Suddenly, you will stop, you and me and...

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