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US author Sigrid Nunez discusses her new novel with Joyce Nickel
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TRIO: Three remarkable works by Kamila Shamsie by Caitlin Fehir
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Belletrista turns one! A brief retrospective and a look ahead
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Reviews
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BAD PENNY BLUES
Cathi Unsworth
Unsworth builds her story around the Jack the Stripper murders of the mid-1960s. These crimes remain unsolved and occasioned the biggest manhunt ever done by the Greater London Metropolitan Police.
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Reviewed by Tad Deffler
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THE WORD BOOK
Mieko Kanai
Translated from the Japanese by Paul McCarthy
It took me a while to appreciate the many virtues of The Word Book. Having just come off reading a run of novels, I dived into these stories too fast, and had to lift my head out of the water, make a conscious decision to …
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Reviewed by Tim Jones
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THE REPORT
Jessica Francis Kane
On a cold March evening in 1943, a sad and shocking event occurred: 173 Londoners, many of them children, died in a crush of people trying to enter the Bethnal Green underground station shelter after air raid warnings had sounded … and to this day no one really knows how it happened.
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Reviewed by Maggie Oldendorf
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LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS: A HAITIAN TRIPTYCH
Marie Vieux-Chavet
Translated from the French by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur
I have read several books by Haitian writers. None of them could be described as happy. Marie Vieux-Chauvet's 1967 trio of novellas (individually titled Love, Anger and Madness) is possibly the least happy of all of them. It may also be the best.
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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THE BLINDNESS OF THE HEART
Julia Franck
Translated from the German by Anthea Bell
A prologue opens the novel. It is some time during World War II and a woman, Alice, abandons her seven-year old son at a railway station. The story proper begins many years earlier in the town of Bautzen … where
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Reviewed by Amanda Meale
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