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Last Man Standing SFX Review

I think it is not often that we will be able to say this about one of books, so we’d better enjoy it. SFX Magazine has given Davide Longo’s The Last Man Standing five stars and their coveted “SFX...

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Three Strong Women

Marie NDiaye’s astounding Goncourt-winning Three Strong Women (translated by John Fletcher) is being published by in America by Alfred A. Knopf, and this Sunday it has been reviewed in the New York...

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Memory Of The Abyss

An extremely thoughtful review of Marcello Fois’ Memory of the Abyss by Thomas Jones in Sunday’s Observer prompts this roundup of sparkling notices. Jones, who read the Italian edition in parallel...

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More On Hotakainen

It is always fun when a reader who reads a book that doesn’t seem at first to be there usual fare comes up with a wonderfully insightful review. (And, yes, a wonderfully positive review, let’s be...

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The Guard: Is It Science Fiction?

It is a question that vexes many, not least on the annual “Why aren’t science fiction novels eligible for Booker Prize?” comment threads on the Guardian. Where there are apocalypses and the like, where...

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Maclehose Press books of the year

Just as Jérôme Ferrari was awarded the Prix Goncourt a few weeks ago, the Books of the Year round-ups began to appear in the press and his novel Where I Left My Soul (trs. Geoffrey Strachan) kept...

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Philippe Claudel: First Reviews

It is unfortunate that the cover image to the left cannot begin to do justice to the physical object you will hold in your hand if you purchase or simply thumb in an indulgent bookshop a copy of The...

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Eileen Battersby Reviews The Voyage

The Voyage, Murray Bail’s elaborate, time-shifting novel of courtship and culture clash, pitting the the stately old world against the brash new order from down under, was published in the UK last...

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Eileen Battersby On Otto De Kat

“How to canonise Eileen Battersby?” asked Christopher MacLehose when he saw the stunning Irish Times spread on Otto de Kat’s Julia, which, making a mockery of the trend towards minimising review...

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“Read this book!”– a review of Derek Robinson’s Why 1914?

Derek Robinson’s WHY 1914? is a brief and comprehensive introduction to the events that led to the start of the First World War. But why take our word for it – see below for a review from Elizabeth...

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