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Book Review: The Red House
Haddon's fiction often features narrators whose viewpoint is different, distinctive, disoriented in some way.
Fiction Addiction: Recommended read - The Taliban Cricket Club
One critic dubbed it "Bend it Like Beckham in a burka." A feel-good read that carries with it romance, humour and suspense, with a sinister twist.
Book Review: Bring Up The Bodies
When we last saw Thomas Cromwell, in the Booker prize-winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's unlikely hero was at the height of his powers.
Book Review: Jubilee
Shelley Harris' remarkably assured debut novel is rooted in the Silver Jubilee celebrations of June 1977.
Book Review: Our Queen
Robert Hardman has had access to "every level" of the Royal Household, he trumpets in the introduction to this exhaustive study of HRH.
Book Review: The Intentions Book
Gigi Fenster has made a standout debut with her novel, The Intentions Book. The writing is tight, the protagonist memorable and the revelations stitched with a subtle finesse.
Book review: In One Person
Anything by John Irving is going to be memorable. And powerful. And provocative. So it is with his 13th novel, the story of five decades in the life of bisexual Billy.
Booker Prize favourite was a frustrating read
Nicky Pellegrino is left uninvolved by Kiwi writer's Booker Prize favourite.