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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Faber &Faber; 144 pages; 2014. In recent years, Deirdre Madden has becomeone of my favourite writers. She has 10 novels to her name, but I've only reviewed three of them - One by One in the Darkness(published in 1996), Molly Fox's Birthday(2008) and Time Present and Time Past(2013) - which means Ihave... | |
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| | | | | I really enjoy a good novella, one-sitting stories. One writing style that seems to particularly suit novellas is a story told in vignettes - each section a paragraph or two, at most a couple... | |
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| | | | | Oliver VII by Antal Szerb (1942) French title: Oliver VII Translated by Chantal Philippe. Oliver VII is my third Antal Szerb after Journey by Moonlight and The Pendragon Legend. We're in Alturia, a fictional country in Eastern Europe, a place that belongs to the former Austro-Hungarian empire. It's the kingdom of Oliver VII, a twenty-four-years... | |
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| | | Longlisted for the Booker Prize and beloved by many, Seascraperis a beautifully written but deeply melancholy work which made me wonder why so many authors revel in depressing historical fiction. Thomas Flett is stranded by his own lack of ambition on a miserable bit of British coastline, earning a subsistence living by scraping for shrimp... | ||