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Enter at Your Own Risk: The Book of Guilt Is Impossible to Escape

I finished ‘The Book of Guilt’ feeling relieved to be out of its world. I raced through it in barely a day and...

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Laughing all the way to the traffic jam

Reading ‘Gridlock’ feels like being strapped into a high-speed chase that never escapes the system it's racing against. Ben Elton delivers a fast,...

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A Light Read That Refuses to Settle: Monica Ali’s ‘Untold Story’

By the end of ‘Untold Story’, I still didn't know what its heroine wanted – and that uncertainty is exactly what makes the...

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Dream Count: A Braided World You Won’t Want to Leave

I didn't want to leave the world of Dream Count. When I picked up my next book , I could feel the difference....

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Making Apartheid Real: A Novel That Gives You Lived Experience Through the Characters

History was my worst subject at school. But reading Fiona Sussman's Shifting Colours made the experience of apartheid in South Africa real, as...

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Stone Yard Devotional

The main character leaves her marriage and high-profile environmental activism role to move to a convent. She wants to be near the place...

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Paradise

In the second novel of Patricia Wolf's series, DS Lucas Walker is in Surfer’s Paradise providing training workshops for police while recuperating from...

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Journey into the Unforgiving Outback: A Review of ‘Outback’ by Patricia Wolf

This rural Australian crime novel has all the classic ingredients – a man-alone detective, a love interest, a harsh and intense landscape, and...

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Unravelling Suburbia: A Review of ‘Goodnight Nobody’ by Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner's signature is all over ‘Goodnight Nobody’ – in a good way. She nails the agony of being around people who have...

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Wellness

This is a huge book, both in size (597 pages) and in its examination of what it means to be in relationship with...