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Gayle recommends:

There aren’t enough novels about LONELINESS and GRIEF and the RADICAL JOY OF A PUBLICLY OWNED UNIVERSAL POSTAL SERVICE imo. Thank god for Vigdis Hjorth.

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The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, an ambitious literary work full of beauty and sorrow. It is a novel told in the action ...

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Long before the collapse of the Information Age, in the twelfth century since the appearance of the prophet Christ, young Hildegard finds grace.

In this story of survival ...

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‘A delightful collection of original, vibrant and heart-warming writing.’ – Nigel Slater

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An essay on the battle for our attention in the age of distraction.

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Winner of a Jan Michalski Foundation Award

Winner of a Danish Arts Foundation Award

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With THE APPOINTMENT, her audacious debut novel, Katharina Volckmer challenges our notions of what is fluid and what is fixed and injects a dose of Bernhardian snark into ...

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“I wrote this book because I didn’t want Amy Winehouse to be dead.”

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Kaleidoscopic and encyclopaedic, comic, tragic, and philosophical, Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a unique novelist but also as one of our most ...

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This award-winning novel about a woman facing her past introduces Terranova to English-speaking audiences.