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Paul Auster - Man in the Dark

(5 stars)21 Aug 2008

In addressing the increasingly threadbare myths that America tells itself about 9/11 and the ensuing war, Auster has shed the dazzling hyper-reflexive post-modern narrative trickery he’s known for like an empty skin, revealing something tender and…

Beatrice Colin

Beatrice Colin - The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

(4 stars)31 Jul 2008

HISTORICAL FICTION (John Murray) This is a big, plush velvet cushion of a book, dense with historical detail and already picking up comparisons to Sarah Waters’ weighty, sexy epics. It’s the story of Lilly Aphrodite, an orphan turned silent movie…

Bethan Roberts - The Good Plain Cook

Bethan Roberts - The Good Plain Cook

(2 stars)3 Jul 2008

FAMILY DRAMA (Serpent’s Tail) In the mid-30s, the American heiress and philanthropist Peggy Guggenheim set up house in the Sussex countryside with her daughter, her poet lover, his daughter, and a young local girl to cook for them. Bethan Roberts has…

Rebecca Miller - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Rebecca Miller - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

(3 stars)27 Mar 2008

SOCIAL DRAMA (Canongate) At first, a novel about the awakening of a woman who has spent her life subjugated to a famous, powerful man seems almost quaintly anachronistic in today’s heady post-feminist climate. But then you remember that the novelist…

Avril Lavigne’s Make 5 Wishes Volume 1 & 2

Camilla D’errico & Joshua Dysart - Avril Lavigne’s Make 5 Wishes Volume 1 & 2

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

TEEN (Titan) I really wanted to hate this. I was hoping for a cheesy, corporate celebrity tie-in scamming money out of a willing fanbase. Sadly, it’s a stunningly-drawn, intelligent, jet-black study of adolescent isolation. Dammit. Hana is a…

Peter Dorward

Peter Dorward - review

Literary thriller

(4 stars)1 Nov 2007

The 1980 terrorist bombing in Bologna that killed 85 people is the focal point of Peter Dorward’s debut novel from new Scottish publishing company Two Ravens. Idealistic, charming Don and his estranged daughter, ‘blue-stockinged virgin’ Rosie, are drawn…

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