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Slim paperback pickings for August thanks to summer reading dominating the schedules. Not usually my cup of tea although some readers might think my first few titles fit that bill. Beatriz Serrano’s Discontent is about Mansa whose life appears enviable but isn’t. She lives in central Madrid in an apartment above her lover’s, having quickly been […]
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I snapped up Rebecca Birrell’s Venus, Vanishing, as soon as it was pitched to me. Opening in Berlin just as Hitler’s rise in popularity has begun, art historian Birrell’s first novel follows eighteen-year-old Hannah Sherman, determined to become an artist rather than marry into a life of domestic drudgery. Elke wanted me to know how […]
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I dithered about reading Roshan Sethi’s The Simp, put off by a few dismissive reviews, but given it’s published by a favourite imprint, decided to take the plunge. As Thackeray fans will have spotted from the subtitle, it’s a twenty-first century take on Vanity Fair, set in Hollywood in 2020, the year Black Lives Matter […]
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August’s second instalment begins with a book from a favourite author of mine. Donal Ryan’s Where Are the Kings follows twelve-year-old Jack over two years after a terrible loss sees his grandparents take him in. One day his mother sets off in the battered family car with Jack careering after her on his bike, too […]
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Given how much I enjoyed both her short story collection, How to Gut a Fish, and her debut novel, Falling Animals, you’d think I’d jump at the change to read Sheila Armstrong’s The Red Mouth, but the blurb’s hints of otherworldliness, curses and strange magnetism put me off. Fortunately, the supernatural strand proved to be […]
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