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Thursday, 30 December 2021
Review by Sally Evans of "The Retreat" by Alison Moore
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A well-written novel evocative of the imaginary Mediterranean island at its core, I found the story a little difficult to unpack, in that th...
Monday, 13 December 2021
Interview with Catherine Menon
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Catherine Menon is the author of Fragile Monsters , published in 2021 by Viking. Her debut short story collection, Subjunctive Moods , was...
Friday, 26 November 2021
Review by Cathi Rae of "is, thinks Pearl" by Julia Bird
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It is almost completely apposite that I almost didn’t get to read this collection, because the younger French Bulldog (a voracious con...
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Review by Katharina Maria Kalinowski of "What Meets the Eye: The Deaf Perspective," ed. Lisa Kelly and Sophie Stone
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What Meets the Eye: The Deaf Perspective is an anthology that registers UK Deaf, deaf and Hard of Hearing experiences by British writers. I...
Saturday, 20 November 2021
Review by Richard Byrt of "Bollocks to Brexit: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction," ed. Ambrose Musiyiwa
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I strongly recommend this entertaining collection. Authors consider Brexit from a wide variety of viewpoints, frequently with passion, and s...
Saturday, 13 November 2021
Review by Gary Day of "Disappearances" by Kathleen Bell
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Kathleen Bell’s debut volume is a thing of beauty, a joy forever, or at least until the global temperature rises beyond the point of no re...
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Review by Richard Byrt of "The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature, vol.1," ed. Alexandros Plasatis et al
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I strongly recommend this collection. I was moved by many of the gripping, “hard-to-stop-reading” stories and non-fiction, skilfully constru...
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Friday, 5 November 2021
Review by Rosa Fernandez of "The Mask" by Elisabeth Horan
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‘A celebration and [a] tribute’ is how the author describes The Mask , a collection of nineteen poems directly inspired by the paintings of ...
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Thursday, 4 November 2021
Review by Kathy Hoyle of "Ways of Living" by Gemma Seltzer
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This wry, strange collection of stories was a delight to read from start to finish. Seltzer’s writing is quirky yet visceral. The collecti...
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