Category: Contemporary fiction
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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB From a Tang Dynasty legend of a young girl trained as an assassin with the ability to skip between dimensions on a secluded mountain sanctuary to a space colony called Nova Pacifica that reflects on a post-apocalyptic world of the American Empire and ‘Moonwalker’ Neil Armstrong, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories is […]
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The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Takes the classic elements of the crime genre with a twist, providing a multi-voiced insight into the psychology of contemporary Japan, with its rituals, pervasive envy and ever so polite hypocrisy. But it’s also about the nature of evil and the resonance and unreliability of memory. On a stormy summer day in the […]
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Four Minutes To Save A Life by Anna Stuart – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB There’s always time to help out a stranger…isn’t there? Supermarket delivery driver Charlie enjoys his new job, because he doesn’t have to spend too long with people, who, he’s found, are nothing but trouble. But when he’s assigned the Hope Row street, he realises there are a lot of lonely people out there […]
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