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Finnish author Riikka Pulkkinen makes her English debut with her second novel, True. Read the first chapter here!
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...A "subtly sophisticated gem of a novel" is how Joyce Nickel describes Mary Horlock's The Book of Lies. Read more...
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The recent Bellweather Prize winning novel, Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron, is reviewed by Judy Lim
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Reviews
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BITE YOUR TONGUE
Francesca Rendle-Short
Bite Your Tongue is part memoir, part fictionalised memories of Australian writer Francesca Rendle-Short, who is trying to make sense of a childhood lived in the overpowering shadow of her mother Angel. Angel was a Christian moral crusader…
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Reviewed by Charlotte Simpson
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SALVAGE THE BONES
Jesmyn Ward
I reviewed Jesmyn Ward's debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds for Belletrista's issue 2, and ever since then I've been looking forward to reading her second. Salvage the Bones was worth the wait. The good news doesn't stop there …
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Reviewed by Rachel Hayes
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WE ARE ALL EQUALLY FAR FROM LOVE
Adiania Shibli
Translated from the Arabic by paul Starkey
If we are to believe the narratives and the characters in this set of interlinked short stories, then we all yearn equally for love and, moreover, we are all equally far from love.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie Dawood
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THE BOOK OF CHANGE
Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang's reputation as an author has come full circle. Her writings were beloved in occupied Shanghai during World War II, but she lost her popularity as the Cultural Revolution marginalized writers, like Chang, who created stories without a political subtext. Today she is generally considered to be one of the great Chinese writers of the twentieth century.
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Reviewed by Barbara Steeg
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Sudha Balagopal invites readers into the world of South Indian Carnatic music in the seven short stories of her
debut collection. Amanda Meale reviews it for us.
Included with this review is a performance by veena virtuoso Nirmala Rajasekar
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