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Uwem Akpan
After publishing “An Ex-Mas Feast” in The New Yorker’s Début Fiction issue for 2005, Akpan discussed his writing with Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor.
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Morton Meyers M.D.
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Charles Cumming
Charles Cumming talks about his spy novels The Hidden Man, A Spy By Nature and The Spanish Game.
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Disquiet
by Julia Leigh |
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Reviewed by Sarah Sacha Dollacker.
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Julia Leigh's second work is a beautiful, gothic tale and an intimate
examination of psychological pain. The novella opens with Olivia's return to her
childhood home after a twelve-year absence. Her two children trail behind her. A
sense of foreboding and displacement takes root in the first scene when Olivia
tries to open the gate to her mother's chateau via the electronic keypad. The
gate will not open. Undeterred, she and the children veer off the path to the
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Someone Knows My Name
by Lawrence Hill
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Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom—and of the knowledge she needs to get home. |
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The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff
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"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass."
So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. |
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Lost Paradise
by Cees Nooteboom
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From acclaimed Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom comes a haunting tale of angels, art, and modern love. |
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A Fraction of the Whole
by Steve Toltz
Critics' Concensus:
A Fraction of the Whole is an uproarious indictment of the modern world and its mores - a rollicking rollercoaster ride from obscurity to infamy, and the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings. |
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Blacklight Blue
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Enzo MacLeod, a Scot teaching on a faculty at Cahors in southwest France, confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin. Enzo has in fact solved the first two... |
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Carolyn Jourdan
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Sara Young
Sara Young discusses My Enemy's Cradle, her first novel for adults set in a Lebensborn, a Nazi-run maternity home for unwed mothers carrying children deemed to be "racially pure". |
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Birdsong
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The London Eye Mystery
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The Secret Life of Bees
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