Fiction
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A 12-year-old girl in rural Kenya has the power to see into her country’s painful past in this compelling, beautifully written novel
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As Amazon meets campaigners’ demands for a ‘disability fiction’ section, adult literature still has much work to do
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3 out of 5 stars.
TV review The Time Traveler’s Wife review – far too much ick factor to be truly great
3 out of 5 stars.Steven Moffat’s adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 bestseller is witty and well done, but it can’t overcome the novel’s depressingly old-fashioned and iffy implications -
Spanning three generations, this novel deftly navigates the emotional minefield of a clan at war
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A grim study of a family of 19th-century US serial killers; a thrilling drama set in ancient Rome; and a vivid drama about a female aviator and the actress who wants to play her
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The Station Eleven author’s brilliant novel flits between disparate lives past and future, and the detective patching them together
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The Notes to Self author’s uplifting debut novel follows the fate of two women over the course of a transformative day in Dublin
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First published in 1964, this striking account of Greenberg’s years in a psychiatric hospital reveals her boredom and fear – and the ignorance of the era
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The American author on how his own experience of psychedelic therapy sparked his debut novel, and his poems about the opioid epidemic
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Sara Nović on writing a novel amid the current Deaf creative revolution and how ASL allowed her to understand herself
I used to read novels for pleasure, then for exams – now I read them for their little jewels of wisdom