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The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
The Mandelbaum Gate was published in 1965, an interesting time in Middle East history. It was two years before the Six Day War between Israel, and its neighbours, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, which led to… more →
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The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
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wrote 4 weeks ago: The Mandelbaum Gate was published in 1965, an interesting time in Middle East history. It was two ye … more →
Dominion by C J Sansom
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wrote 3 months ago: C J Sansom is already well-known as the author of the Shardlake novels, a series of crime novels set … more →
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
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wrote 5 months ago: This complex, multi-layered novel is a combination of steampunk fantasy and spy thriller with a heal … more →
Broken Harbour by Tana French
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wrote 6 months ago: This is the fourth novel by Tana French, an Irish crime writer who has done much since her first boo … more →
Vulpes Libris’ All Time Greats: The Top Ten – No. 2
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wrote 8 months ago: A repeating pattern on Vulpes Libris over the last 5 years has been that often the reviews you expe … more →
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
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wrote 10 months ago: Storm Front is the first in Jim Butcher’s series about Harry Dresden, private detective and urban wi … more →
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
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wrote 1 year ago: The Sisters Brothers is Patrick deWitt’s second novel. It can’t be described without reference to th … more →
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
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wrote 1 year ago: Un Lun Dun is the first young adult novel by China Mieville who is well-established as a writer of f … more →
The Book of Human Skin – Michelle Lovric
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wrote 1 year ago: This is Michelle Lovric’s fourth novel for adults and like the first three, it focuses on semi-fanta … more →
The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
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wrote 2 years ago: Ben Aaronovitch has a background in screenwriting, most notably for Doctor Who, and has also written … more →
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
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wrote 2 years ago: The Eyre Affair is the first in Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series, set in an alternative reality. … more →
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling – read by Stephen Fry
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wrote 2 years ago: JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series was one of the Noughties biggest publishing events. It grossed many … more →
So Much To Tell by Valerie Grove
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wrote 2 years ago: This biography, timed to coincide with the seventieth birthday of Puffin Books, aims to tell us some … more →
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
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wrote 2 years ago: Two Lives is Vikram Seth’s memoir of his uncle Shanti (Shanti Uncle) and Shanti’s German-Jewish wife … more →
Home by Marilynne Robinson
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wrote 2 years ago: Home is, in a sense, Marilynne Robinson’s companion to Gilead, which was published in 2004 to a good … more →
When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett
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wrote 3 years ago: What Really Happened to Britain in the Seventies The Seventies are currently in vogue. The success o … more →
Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds
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wrote 3 years ago: This beautifully-detailed graphic novel is a follow-up to Gemma Bovery, Posy Simmonds’s version of F … more →
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
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wrote 3 years ago: I first read An Equal Music about ten years ago and loved it. A few years later, I finally got round … more →
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
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wrote 3 years ago: This novel is the first in a trilogy about the colonisation and settlement of Mars. It is somewhat o … more →
