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Category Archives: fiction
The elegance of the hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Gallic)
“Marx has completely changed the way I view the world,” declared the Pallieres boy this morning, although ordinarily he says nary a word to me.” PERHAPS it is just my personal taste, but it seems as if a new form … Continue reading
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Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber)
“The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died.” THE prose is wonderfully joyful and rambling. The Guardian refers to this winner … Continue reading
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Tagged anna burns, Belfast, Man Booker winner
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How’s the pain? by Pascal Garnier (Gallic)
“The sound coming from somewhere in the darkness was barekly audible, but it was enough… I AM unsure about the title, douleur can be translated as pain, but it also implies grief, soreness, aching, distress and misery as in … Continue reading
The gallows pole by Benjamin Myers (Bluemoose)
“Soot and ash. Snot and spume. Quag and sump and clotted moss. Loam.” THE opening playful poetry should not distract you… we are off to a flying start, it is 1767, we are on a secret errand, we pass the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1767, benjamin myers, booker aberration, gallows pole, halifax yorkshire
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Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber)
“Marianne amswers the door when Connell rings the bell.” BY coincidence I heard a radio broadcast where a well known doctor admitted to flunking out of Oxford because of an unhappy love affair and where the plot details do not … Continue reading
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Tagged carricklea, faber, man booker prize, normal people, romance, sally rooney, trinity college dublin
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The shepherd’s hut by Tim Winton (Picador)
“When I hit the bitumen and get that smooth grey rumble going under me everything’s hell different” THERE is a sticker on my edition proclaiming that this has been a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, which is a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged australian outback, catcher in the rye, jaxie clackton, picador, tim winton
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Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape)
“In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.” I RECOMMEND that you do not read too many reviews of this brilliant contender for the Man Booker … Continue reading
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Tagged blitz, greyhound racing, michael ondaatje, warlight, world war 2
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