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JANUARY Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan | Fiction | PB | £9.99 | 19 January 2023 From the critically-acclaimed author of The Dominant Animal About one woman’s fi […]

  The Devils Stepan Verkhovensky was a liberal lecturer in 1840s Russia; thinking the authorities were going to persecute him he became tutor to Nikolai Stavrogin, […]

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  Six Inches Tall* A dollmaker is advertising for an office girl, as his last one has left him. He’s a nice old man, used to be a puppeteer in Europe**, loves to g […]

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 Monster Of The Week 144 is GoldenSteak, gold all the way through, not leaf or plated, doesn’t taste of anything, who’s to judge the people who buy this rather […]

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Days of Infamy: How A Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment. Lawrence Goldstone. 2022. 288 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: On December 8, […]

The Jumping-Off Place. Marian Hurd McNeely. Illustrated by William Siegel. 1929. 321 pages. [Source: Review copy]First sentence: Down on their knees, a boy and […]

The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5) Rick Riordan. 2014. 516 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Jason hated being old. His joints hurt. His legs […]

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 What Comes To Mind When You Call Me A Goddess by Michelle Thornton in Citron Review A stream of consciousness or association. Mythical goddesses, idealised […]

Whether mercilessly skewering Boris Johnson or lampooning Brexit, the Guardian journalist’s collected columns demonstrate her wit at its sulphur-tongued bestAt o […]

The historian’s incisive account of the standoff between the US and Russia has chilling and timely lessons 60 years onIt is hard for many of us to imagine, 60 y […]

An enjoyable collection of le Carré’s letters reveals a tetchy but warm man who strove to keep his books topical, while a former lover’s memoir leaves little unsa […]

The former children’s laureate on the end of the Noughts & Crosses series, why her memoir is the hardest book she’s written, and her soft spot for murder det […]

And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh is the neurosurgeon’s account of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer shortly after his r […]

Communes are on the rise, but we’ve been here before – more than 200 years ago Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his poet friends were pinning their hopes on the col […]