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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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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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ALWAYS COCA COLA
Alexandra Chreiteh
Translated from the Arabic by Michelle Hartman
My friends and I, all twenty-somethings early into our careers, are typical young women. We gossip about relationships and men, dream big dreams about our futures, and have secure jobs that allow us …
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Reviewed by Caitlin Fehir
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JUDITH'S SISTER
Lisa Tremblay
The nameless narrator (let's call her Miss X) of this engaging rite-of-passage novel is a twelve-year-old Catholic girl growing up in a small rural town in Quebec. Her stoic father works in the timber industry and …
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Reviewed by Dorothy Dudek Vinicombe
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THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT
Caroline Preston
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt reads like a fairy-tale journey of a young woman who wants to be a writer and embark on a life of adventure. Frankie's travels span a dramatic decade of history…
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Reviewed by Leonie Clark
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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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