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QUEEN MACBETH by Val McDermid
Val McDermid was always a dead cert for a Darkland Tales book. Since the series’ inception, fans could only dream of what Scotland’s queen of crime…
Jul 23
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ONLY SOUND REMAINS by Hossein Asgari
This year’s Miles Franklin Award has proven a boon for novella lovers, with three of the six books shortlisted for Australia’s biggest literary prize…
Jul 19
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MONUMENTA by Lara Haworth
A dry, wry humour courses through Lara Haworth’s debut, Monumenta, played out to perfection in one moment from the book’s early pages. Having received…
Jul 15
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WOODWORM by Layla Martínez
Translated by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott
Jul 8
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LUBLIN by Manya Wilkinson
It’s 1907 and three young Jewish teens set off from their little Polish village to sell a carton of paintbrushes in the big smoke. There’s Elya, the…
Jul 1
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June 2024
POP. 1280 by Jim Thompson
Few characters haunt me quite like Sheriff Lou Ford from Jim Thompson’s 1952 masterpiece, The Killer Inside Me. Really, is there a more evil psychopath…
Jun 27
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THE FOOT OF CLIVE by John Berger
Having spent my fair share of time in hospital over the years, I’m all too familiar with the strange communities of circumstance that coagulate on ward…
Jun 22
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THE CRAZY HUNTER by Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle is one of those forgotten legends who deserves a proper renaissance. A star of the inter-War literary scene, she published alongside the likes…
Jun 15
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HACKENFELLER'S APE by Brigid Brophy
For the past few years, the fine folk at Faber have been deep diving in their archives for (mostly) out of print, (mostly) forgotten masterpieces and…
Jun 7
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May 2024
THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Elendhaven is a festering wart at the arse end of the world. Isolated, decimated and pulsing with plague, it is every gothic nightmare fantasy rolled…
May 29
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GLACIERS by Alexis M. Smith
Isabel works in the basement of her local library, repairing damaged books and daydreaming about the people in postcards and photographs she has picked…
May 23
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HARLEQUIN BUTTERFLY by Toh EnJoe
Translated by David Boyd
May 17
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