Recent new fiction and non-fiction reviews (review publication order)
May Crime Round-Up by N. J. Cooper
Lost Luggage by Jordi Punti
Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy
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Sila’s Fortune by Fabrice Humbert
I Know You Are Going To be Happy by Rupert Christiansen
The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson
She Left Me the Gun by Emma Brockes
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Lost, Stolen or Shredded by Rick Gekoski
Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
Trespassers - A Memoir by Julia O'Faolain
Vow by Wendy Plump
She Rises by Kate Worsley
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The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
March Crime
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In Diamond Square by Merce Rodoreda
The Paradise Guesthouse by Ellen Sussman
Black Vodka by Deborah Levy
O My America! by Sara Wheeler
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
Intermission by Owen Martell
The Innocents by Francesca Segal
The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry
February Crime Round-Up by N.J. Cooper
The First Book of Calamity Leek by Paula Lichtarowicz
City of Women by David Gillham
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Lost & Found by Tom Winter
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
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An English Affair by Richard Davenport-Hines
In the Gold of Time by Claudie Gallay
Penelope by Rebecca Harrington
The Engagement by Chloe Hooper
Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler
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The Friday Gospels by Jenn Ashworth
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
The Taste of Apple Seeds by Katharina Hagena
Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather by Pierre Szalowski
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Tenth of December by George Saunders
Infrared by Nancy Huson
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Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise
The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon
Patience by John Coates
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Dear Life by Alice Munro
These Wonderful Rumours by May Smith
Winter Games by Rachel Johnson
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Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard
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The Persephone Book of Short Stories
Brilliance by Anthony McCarten
Dolly by Susan Hill
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
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Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart
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Merivel by Rose Tremain
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Where I Left My Soul by Jérôme Ferrari
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Living With Jonathan by Sheila Barton
In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood
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The Finno-Ugrian Vampire by Noémi Szécsi
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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
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The Big Screen by David Thomson
Hartsend by Janice Brown
Risk by C.K. Stead
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NW by Zadie Smith
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
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The Black Count by Tom Reiss
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Nine Rabbits by Virginia Zaharieva
Spilt Milk by Chico Buarque
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
Marie Curie and Her Daughters by Shelley Emling
The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
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The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
Nothing is Heavy by Vicki Jarrett
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John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk
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Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand: The Missing Girls of England by Bridget O’Donnell
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Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Why Men Lie by Linden MacIntyre
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Phaedra: a drama in verse by Marina Tsvetaeva
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The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
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Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay
Black Box by Jennifer Egan
The Confidant by Hélène Grémillon
My Gun Was As Tall As Me by Toni Davidson
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The Heart Broke In by James Meek
Toby's Room by Pat Barker
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The Weight of a Human Heart by Ryan O’Neill
Isabel’s Skin by Peter Benson
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
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The Dinner by Herman Koch
Genie and Paul by Natasha Soobramanien
The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
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Part of the Spell by Rachel Heath
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Little People by Jane Sullivan
The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy
The Human Part by Kari Hotakainen
The Scream by Laurent Graff
Cold Hands by John J. Niven
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Rook by Jane Rusbridge
The Silence by Alison Bruce
The Heat of the Sun by David Rain
Wonder Girls by Catherine Jones
Ancient Light by John Banville
They Eat Puppies, Don't They? by Christopher Buckley
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Vengeance in Mind by N.J. Cooper
In the Kingdom of Men by Kim Barnes
Come to the Edge by Joanna Kavenna
After Such Kindness by Gaynor Arnold
A Trick I Learned from Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge
So It Is by Liam Murray Bell
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The Black Path by Asa Larsson
The Truth by Michael Palin
The Islands by Carlos Gamerro
Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide To Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
The Road to Urbino by Roma Tearne
Finding Soutbek by Karen Jennings
Every Day, Every Hour by Nataša Dragnić
The Baghdad Railway Club by Andrew Martin
Joy by Jonathan Lee
Park Lane by Frances Osborne
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Hansen’s Children by Ognjen Spahic
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The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Gold by Chris Cleave
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A Humble Companion by Laurie Graham
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The Scent of Lemon Leaves by Clara Sanchez
Beautiful Lies by Clare Clarke
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The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso
The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
Death in the Sun by Adam Creed
Kingdom of Strangers by Zoe Ferraris
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Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
Ramshackle by Elizabeth Reeder
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon
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The Life of Rebecca Jones by Angharad Price
If You're Reading This I'm Already Dead by Andrew Nicoll
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The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Battacharya
Madame Mephisto by A.M. Bakalar
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
This Is How It Ends by Kathleen MacMahon
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The Element –Inth in Greek by Alison Fell
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Opposed Positions by Gwendoline Riley
The Server by Tim Parks
The Making of Her by Susie Nott-Bower
The Baroness by Hannah Rothschild
Skios by Michael Frayn
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
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HHhH by Laurent Binet
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The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson
The Light between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Ninepins by Rosy Thornton
The Fifties Mystique by Jessica Mann
My Son, My Son by Douglas Galbraith
The Incident by Kenneth Macleod
A Stone's Throw by Fiona Shaw
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