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Uwem Akpan
After publishing “An Ex-Mas Feast” in The New Yorker’s Début Fiction issue for 2005, Akpan discussed his writing with Cressida Leyshon, deputy fiction editor.
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Charles Cumming
Charles Cumming talks about his spy novels The Hidden Man, A Spy By Nature and The Spanish Game.
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Disquiet
by Julia Leigh |
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Reviewed by Sarah Sacha Dollacker.
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Julia Leigh's second work is a beautiful, gothic tale and an intimate
examination of psychological pain. The novella opens with Olivia's return to her
childhood home after a twelve-year absence. Her two children trail behind her. A
sense of foreboding and displacement takes root in the first scene when Olivia
tries to open the gate to her mother's chateau via the electronic keypad. The
gate will not open. Undeterred, she and the children veer off the path to the
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A Hatred for Tulips
by Richard Lourie
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A gripping fictionalized account of the man who betrayed Anne Frank will not soon be forgotten. Richard Lourie takes us into not only a person’s mind, a time, and a place, but into the treacherous currents of history that sweep lives away. |
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Down the Nile
by Rosemary Mahoney
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In 1998 Rosemary Mahoney took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat. This is the unforgettable story of her trip down the world's most historic river, overcoming both cultural and natural challenges. |
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The Shadow Walker
by Michael Walters
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Murder is so uncommon in Mongolia that when one occurs, the government accepts help from England in the person of Chief Inspector Drew McLeish of Manchester.Together with Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes squad, they follow the trail of the dead from the abandoned factories of the city's decaying suburbs to the icy expanse of the barren steppes. |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
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At once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. |
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Blacklight Blue
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Enzo MacLeod, a Scot teaching on a faculty at Cahors in southwest France, confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin. Enzo has in fact solved the first two... |
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Amy Mackinnon
Amy MacKinnon's first novel, Tethered was published in hardcover in 2008. It stars
Clara Marsh, an undertaker who doesn't believe in God. She spends her solitary life among the dead, preparing their last baths, beautifying their bodies, and bidding them farewell with a bouquet from her own garden. But Clara's carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlor, desperate for a friend.
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Birdsong
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The London Eye Mystery
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