• The Loudest Sound and Nothing

    By Clare Wigfall

    Taken together, these stories read like expressions of a unique and compelling artistic vision.
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  • Breath

    By Tim Winton

    Winton, like the underrated Paul Watkins, writes beautiful, spare prose about the ways men find to behave with each other.
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  • Away

    By Amy Bloom

    Amy Bloom’s latest novel tells a thoroughly gripping and often quite beautiful tale: at once an epic quest and a more personal voyage of (self) discovery.
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  • The Separate Heart and Other Stories

    By Simon Robson

    Robson is good on the resentments we carry with us into old age.
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  • The Carhullan Army

    By Sarah Hall

    Complete Recovery: data retrieval or spiritual and physical rejuvenation? Well, both in Sarah Hall’s riveting third novel.

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  • Martin Martin's on the Other Side

    By Mark Wernham

    Jensen Interceptor is a hilarious one-off, at once crass, naïve, charming, foul-mouthed, stupid, lovestruck and resilient.
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  • The Yacoubian Building

    By Alaa Al Aswany

    All manner of people live in the once resplendent Yacoubian building, the rich in spacious apartments, the poor in metal shacks on the roof.
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  • Bonjour Blanc

    By Ian Thomson

    'Haiti is a country that was never meant to be,’ concludes Ian Thomson at the end of his fine book about a most tragic nation.
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  • Nada

    By Carmen Laforet

    Andrea escapes the doom-laden atmosphere of the apartment by going to her classes at the university, where she is befriended by the beautiful and vivacious Ena.
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  • Redemption Falls

    By Joseph OConnor

    All seek redemption (whether knowingly or not) but whether it is possible after the horrors experienced in the Civil War and elsewhere is a question that hangs, unanswered, over the novel.
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