Thursday, 16 December 2021

Books of the Year 2021

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2021 been another incredibly difficult year for so many. Some of our Books of the Year confront those difficulties head on - others offer a ...
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Monday, 13 December 2021

A Nest of Vipers by Catherine Johnson

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Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: I grew up loving the novels of Leon Garfield – with a special fondness for Smith . Catherin...
Thursday, 9 December 2021

Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun; Translated by Janet Hong

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Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: “For over sixteen years, I’ve pondered, prodded, and worked every detail embroiled in the ca...
Monday, 6 December 2021

Shadow City – A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran N Khan

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Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: “In this ‘amnesiac city’ I found that walking offered a way to exhume history – a kind of bi...
Thursday, 2 December 2021

The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee

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Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: "Placing oneself in a position of semi- permanent hypocrisy, that’s what it meant to b...
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Monday, 29 November 2021

You Don’t Know Me by Imran Mahmoud

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Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: “Right now you think, looking at me, that I’m just some foolish kid who go around shooting u...
Thursday, 25 November 2021

What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

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  Reviewer: Catriona Troth What We Thought of It: Egyptian born Canadian Journalist Omar El Akkad has taken the image of a child’s body wash...