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 Monster Of The Week 117 is BalloonBrandy, seems smooth as silk at the start but turns rough when you get to know her, intoxicating perfume, sceptical; to convince […]

Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves. L.M. Elliott. 2022. 320 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: One morning in late March, Mama and I were sitting in our […]

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis. Susan Hood. 2022. 352 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Dear Grandma (Z), Hi, how are you doing? I hope […]

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Tailor Made by Cynthia Zang in Kaleidotrope Tadgh works at Taliesin’s Threads and Embellishments andmakes clothes from words for times and special occasions. S […]

Katherine Rundell’s engaging and playful biography of the metaphysical poet demands – and rewards – your attention“Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserve […]

This acclaimed 2003 novel, recently translated into English for the first time, illuminates the country’s history with a tale bordering on magical realismA w […]

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The Oxford psychology professor traces the evolutionary advantages, or otherwise, of faithRobin Dunbar sets out to offer nothing less than “an overarching theory f […]

Recounting a summer spent tending her garden under threat of eviction, the writer’s exploration of the appeal of gardens ranges far and wideGardens knit us into t […]

Worzel Gummidge They’re back, doubling the number of episodes to six. A good three years work there! But seriously, these are three charming tales of scarecrow r […]

This chilling examination of how the growing popularity of autocrats and their aspirants could upend western liberal values is forceful and timelyRussia’s i […]

The German author on struggling to forgive his parents’ generation, postwar Germany’s adoption of liberalism and his fondness for 1920s fictionHarald Jähner’s After […]

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The Canadian author on how her pandemic novel became a lockdown phenomenon and inspired a hit TV seriesTwo years ago, Emily St John Mandel was promoting The Glass […]

Systems by Nathaniel Lee in Kaleidotrope The ecology is falling apart. Our narrator meets with his ex, who tells him about the frogs, and he suggests she writes a […]