A curious and entirely original novel. I mean who would think that there could be such a thing as a clandestine political network that feeds on cheese made from human breast milk and a night time warrior for justice that’s actually a drug-fueled fluffy cat. If I pitched this novel I’d get dismissed out of…
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‘The Time of the Hero’ by Mario Vargas Llosa
Toxic masculinity. It makes young men do dumb things. It also doesn’t stop older men doing dumb things. When dumb things become commonplace they become the system. The system doesn’t like being changed when the people in charge of it are comfortable with dumb things happening. Dumb things become dumber when there are guns involved….
‘The War That Saved My Life’ by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
It’s World War two but nine-year-old Ada has never been allowed to leave their one-room flat because her mother is embarrassed by her daughter’s clubfoot. But when Ada’s younger brother Jamie is evacuated from London, Ada sneaks away to join him. They arrive in a country village and meet Susan Smith who looks after them…
‘CHERNOBYL PRAYER’ and ‘THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR’ by Svetlana Alexeivich
Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexeivich So you want to cheer yourself up with a good book eh? Well, if the slow, aching death by radiation poisoning and cancers of both locals and the one hundred and seventy thousand ‘volunteers’ who performed the ‘clean-up’, the loss of livelihood and traditional lands of millions of Belarusians and…
‘THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS’ by John Buchan
Fine japes, what? Bally Jerry picking a bunfight, Yankee spook rumbles the game and tells our man. Seppo ends up tits-up pearside with a dagger in his gusset; framed! Chap ends up jollying orf to Jockland chased by the rozzers. Mmeeeooooowww! What?! That’s not the RAF! Bally Jerries again! Escape! Gent pops orf home for tea…
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FINE, FINE, FINE, FINE, FINE by Diane Williams
These are some of the finest stories you will read.
HAG-SEED by Margaret Atwood
An extremely wry, clever riff on ‘The Tempest’.
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