Book review: The Message

In three essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores his personal relationship with identity, culture, and apartheid

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Book review: 2024 Booker Prize winner Orbital

A single day account which tells the earthly story of being alive.

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Book review – The First Friend

Set in the Soviet Union during the peak of Stalinism, The First Friend is an absurdist comedy on the legacy of despots and blood-thirsty dictators.

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Book review – The Waiting

Detectives Harry Bosch and Reneé Ballard join forces again in a new Michael Connelly page turner that delivers exactly what it promises.

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Book review: Nothing More To Tell

An immersive and gripping young adult thriller

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Book review: Safe Haven

Shankari Chandran’s gripping and persuasive novel of asylum seekers, reads like an open wound.

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Book review: The Leaves

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Book review: The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez signs a COVID novel that has the same kind of humour, observation and literary references her fans recognise.

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Book review: Past Lying

The plot of a dead author’s half-finished manuscript eerily mirrors the real-life disappearance of a young woman. In an Edinburgh lockdown, McDermid’s cold case cop…

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