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Book review: All Among the Barley, Melissa Harrison

All Among the Barley isn’t quite the story you expect. Melissa Harrison’s book is indeed a coming-of-age story set in[…]

The Accidental Tourist is the story of Macon Leary, a travel writer who hates travel. The books he writes are[…]

Knife is an unusual read. In part, a harrowing and emotional retelling of the attempted murder of its author, Salman[…]

Young Mungo doesn’t have an easy life. On the book jacket, Douglas Stuart’s novel is described by The Observer’s critic[…]

Old God’s Time is an extraordinary book, not least because it was not at all what I expected it to[…]

Hamnet is undoubtedly one of the best books I’ve read in a long while. And I read a lot of[…]

Like many people, I’d imagine, I’ve never understood how people get caught up in cults. But in Dinner for Vampires,[…]

I suspect the main question asked about James by Percival Everett is whether you need to have already read Huckleberry[…]