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The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud review – tales of a Trinidadian gangster
The troubling allure of a real-life gangster is vividly captured in tales from the women who fell for him
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20, Apr, 2024 @6:30 AM

Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey review – a comic take on newly single life
A sardonic story of divorce, depression and the road to recovery by the Schitt’s Creek screenwriter
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06, Jan, 2023 @7:30 AM

‘I’ve no idea how we’ll pick a winner’: the challenge of a spectacular Booker shortlist
From a surreal African kingdom to a Sri Lankan afterlife, via murder, morality, grief and healing … One of this year’s prize judges assesses the six finalists they must choose between
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06, Sep, 2022 @6:30 PM

Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood review – wisdom and wonder
The novelist is frank, excellent company in her third volume of essays, covering the Obama years, #MeToo and Covid
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03, Mar, 2022 @7:30 AM

Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love by Huma Qureshi review – a fine debut
In this first collection, sweetly domestic stories are complicated when characters confront hidden wounds
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17, Nov, 2021 @7:30 AM

Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin review – family’s subtle poison
A finely observed Irish debut about a monstrous mother and dysfunctional siblings
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25, Sep, 2021 @8:00 AM

Three Rooms by Jo Hamya review – on belonging and inequality
A fraught, polemical debut novel about precarious work and housing, and the effects on women’s ambitions
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08, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM

We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan review – a powerful debut
Belonging and exile are at the heart of this novel of dislocation and trauma
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20, Feb, 2021 @10:00 AM

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi review – electrifyingly truthful
When does self-determination become selfishness? This intelligent Booker-shortlisted debut examines the legacy of a toxic mother
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26, Sep, 2020 @6:30 AM

Writers & Lovers by Lily King review – a kind of gorgeous agony
From the complexities of romance to debt, the struggles of an aspiring writer are observed with humour and pathos
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13, Jun, 2020 @6:30 AM

Braised Pork by An Yu review – a startlingly original debut
Realism and surrealism intertwine as an alienated young woman finds herself on a journey from Beijing to Tibet
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04, Jan, 2020 @9:00 AM

Critics need thicker skin than ever in the age of Twitter
This year’s Observer/Anthony Burgess prize celebrates the wealth of arts journalism, but there are perils in being a critic in the social media age
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27, Oct, 2019 @8:00 AM
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