Fiction

This is a novel that unabashedly mixes fact and fiction. Red Star Down by D.B. John, who was brought up in Wales and is a rare Westerner who has been ...

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Korea advancement

This book, Flesh, is the sixth novel by the 51-year-old Hungarian/English author, David Szalay, who has previously been short-listed for the Booker Pr...

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Getting physical

I think the heading of this blog is certainly apposite: a review of a book of that title and a short story about such a premises in Camden Town, Londo...

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The Bookseller

I chose this book for my fiction blog this time around largely because of a serendipitous piece of timing. I started reading it shortly before a trip ...

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Very fine and very French

The chief literary critic of The Times recently described Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (the cover is shown on the home page) as a novel ...

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Not so pally on the Cally

First things first. The author would insist this is not fiction. Others would agree and call it hogwash, but while the jacket blurb to this book by Na...

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Stark Staring Nad

The 16th fiction book published by Sebastian Faulks landed in bookstores last month. When I say “fiction book”, that is not a unanimous vi...

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On the run from the past

(…with titular apologies to the Doors, New York City and Missouri) Sally Milz is a sketch writer for a late-night comedy show called The Night O...

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