Olen Steinhauer, All the Old Knives, book review
The much-missed actor Alan Rickman spent his brilliant career bringing literary characters to cinematic life. But his influence also ran in the other direction. In the acknowledgements of his latest...
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American journalist Sarah Hepola's extraordinary book describes her years of drinking, in a memoir of forgetting.
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Peter Walker's third novel opens in New Zealand, where a group of middle-aged friends convene to visit the grave of Morgan Tawhai, an erudite, enigmatic Maori who enlivened the group's time together at...
View ArticleAnna Lyndsey, Girl in the Dark, book review
Anna Lyndsey had a normal life: job, friends, casual boyfriend. But she began to suffer a rare skin disease that made her extremely sensitive to light. Her condition became so severe she had to retreat...
View ArticleSara Paretsky, Brush Back, book review
The latest in Sara Paretsky's excellent V I Warshawski series which follows the work of a private detective in Chicago. (This is No 17 and by now Warshawksi has a more lovingly detailed backstory than...
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