This is a fascinating second novel from Bethan Roberts. Kitty answers an advert in her local newspaper for a ‘good plain cook’, and while she is quite plain, she is not a good cook. Her plainness is partly due to the fact that she is so young and inexperienced. The advert had also called for [...]
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This is a fascinating novel by Eli Gottlieb. Nick Framingham is coming to terms with the death of his best friend, Rob Castor, who had seemed to have a stellar career in New York as an author. Not only has Rob committed suicide, but he also murdered his ex-girlfriend Kate Pierce. That would be traumatic [...]
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The Metarevolution is a revolutionary manifesto about revolutions. It is both a theory about the nature of change throughout history, and a prescription of what to do about it. The touchstone idea for The Metarevolution is that no matter how well thought-out any ideology may be to start with, there are always limitations which only [...]
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Published by Punked Books in paperback on 1st December 2009 priced £6.99
At the age of 22, Jack is going nowhere. Stuck in a New Mexico backwater, slicing dead cattle for a living, he is ready to seize any opportunity to make something of his life. So when his workmate Ed tells him about the $25,000 [...]
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Daniel Davies’ The Isle of Dogs is a brilliant debut novel that looks at the relatively new British phenomenon that is dogging. Denis Robert’s Happiness concerns the affair between a writer and a young arts graduate, which depicts similar scenes of seedy sex. In tone, it’s quite similar to a recent episode of the French [...]
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