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'Graphic Novels: A Personal Introduction' by Charlotte Simpson
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Now translated and published after her more recent Touch, is Adania Shibli's first novel. Read an excerpt of it here!
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"I like change, you go first!" Awards and Gender: Where Do We Stand Now
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Reviews
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MISSING MATISSE
Jan Rehner
Switching between the worlds of France before and during the Second World War and present day Canada and France, Missing Matisse is a gripping, whirlwind-like novel about a lost Matisse painting.
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Reviewed by Ceri Evans
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THE HIGHEST FRONTIER
Joan Slonczewski
If you are a fan of the science in science fiction, then you will love this new book by award winning author Joan Slonczewski. From biology and chemistry to politics and theology, she has used scientific principles to build a world that is not only believable, but also quite compelling.
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Reviewed by Judy Lim
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BYE BYE BABYLON: BEIRUT 1975-1979
Lamia Ziadé
Lamia Ziadé's Bye Bye Babylon, an illustrated memoir, takes us back to the spring of 1975, on a day when her family returned from a lunch in the country to find that in the space of a few hours a civil war had begun.
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Reviewed by Charlotte Simpson
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PRIVATE PROPERTY
Paule Constant
Translated from the French by France Grenaudier-Klijn and Margot Miller
Tiffany Murano is an outsider. Her parents, French expats in Africa, have sent her to an all-girls boarding school in France. The Catholic boarding school, the Convent of the Slaughterhouse Ladies, is a place devoid of love; Tiffany does not fit in with the other girls…
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Reviewed by Caitlin Fehir
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