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'Be Careful Out There, Be Careful in Here: The Dangerous Worlds of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya' by Tim Jones
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An extended review of Hillary Jordan's When She Woke explores this thoughtful, modern re-telling of a classic.
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'Eyes for the Grotesque Things in Life': A Conversation with Sarah Hall
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Reviews
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DOGS AT THE PERIMETER
Madeleine Thien
Over this past summer, Case 002 was getting underway in the Cambodian legal system. This is the trial of several of the top Khmer Rouge leaders on charges of genocide …
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Reviewed by Tad Deffler
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1222
Anne Holt
Translated from the Norwegian by Marlaine Delargy
On a frigid night, with a snowstorm raging, a train derails in the Norwegian mountains. The driver is dead, but 269 passengers are rescued, transported by snowmobile to a nearby isolated hotel at the station—1222 meters above sea level—to wait out the storm until help can reach them.
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Reviewed by Kate Morgan
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ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING INDIAN
Rupinder Gill
Sometimes you just need to read something fun. After many years immersed in the non-fiction world of career, home renovation and childcare books, I've been trying to …
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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THE TESTAMENT OF JESSIE LAMB
Jane Rogers
In this near future novel, the world is suffering from the sins of its previous generations. The survival of the human race is threatened by a new disease, Maternal Death Syndrome. MDS affects the brain, and it has infected everyone, although it is only activated in women…
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Reviewed by Jana Herlander
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AN ACCIDENT IN AUGUST
Laurence Cossé
Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
I am sure that most people, certainly in the United Kingdom, can remember where they were when the death of Diana, Princess of Wales was announced. It was an event of such magnitude in the consciousness of the British public, or at least …
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Reviewed by Ceri Evans
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