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    • Benny and Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti

    • Benny and Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti

      Benny’s parents’ grave is a kitsch heap, which annoys the hell out of librarian Desirée whenever she goes to the graveyard on her lunchbreak to eat sandwiches by her late...

    • The Dirty South by Alex Wheatle

    • The Dirty South by Alex Wheatle

      There’s something about the capacity for both blistering intelligence and reckless abandon that makes for a thoroughly engaging protagonist. Whether it’s Irvine Welsh’s Renton...

    • Error World by Simon Garfield

    • Error World by Simon Garfield

      When Umberto Eco writes about mundane stuff – football, Disney World, porn – he is educational, inquisitive, full of fresh angles. When Jean Baudrillard does it, he’s as...

    • The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi

    • The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi

      Susan Faludi’s new book would not have been necessary if the American (and indeed UK) press had done its job. The aftermath of 9/11 presented the American Right and its cheerleaders in the...

    • The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross

    • The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross

      To write a book that convincingly describes the path of classical music through the turbulent twentieth century is an act worthy of celebration. To write one, as Alex Ross has, that is...

    • The Savage by David Almond

    • The Savage  by David Almond

      Blue Baker has been feeling pretty dark since his dad’s heart stopped suddenly one day. Urged by a school counsellor to work through his emotions by writing them down, he scribbles up a vivid...

    • Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones

    • Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones

      John Cromer, the narrator of Adam Mars-Jones’ new novel (his first for 15 years), calls himself Pilcrow, after a ‘specialised piece of punctuation’ that marks the end of a...

    • Caravan Thieves by Gerard Woodward

    • Caravan Thieves by Gerard Woodward

      In his first collection of short stories,  Gerard Woodward falls squarely between the comic lunacy of American short-form virtuoso George Saunders and the everyday rhapsodies of Raymond...

    • The Language of Others by Clare Morall

    • The Language of Others by Clare Morall

      Clare Morrall’s third novel is a subtle, elegant affair dealing with family, marriage and parenthood. The protagonist Jessica Fontaine is a divorced concert pianist and sometime librarian...

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