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The Booker-winning novelist knew when she read the Iliad that she would write about Briseis one dayIn The Human Stain Philip Roth describes the Iliad as the source […]

Most recently portrayed by Dev Patel in The Green Knight, Gawain is Arthurian legend’s most complex character. Director David Lowery and others talk about how t […]

Science fiction, theology, puzzles and a whole lot of sex … this mammoth novel is one extended stylish flourish that threatens to lose the plotOf the ambition, i […]

Grief, anxiety and the many flavours of instant noodles suffuse this story of loss, growth and mother-daughter love“Where do you go after you witness death?” Mic […]

Felaheen Jon Courtney Grimwood’s Arabesk Trilogy comes to its conclusion. Raf, having spent two books in El Iskandryia, the alternate future Free City of A […]

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That Thing About Bollywood. Supriya Kelkar. 2021. [May] 352 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: You know how in Bollywood movies, people sing and dance on […]

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When the 2011 riots broke out, they were widely dismissed as plain criminality. A new work by film-maker Baff Akoto tells a different story – and shows how the c […]

The Booker-longlisted author on the dazzling wordplay of Nabokov, feeling bemused by Haruki Murakami and struggling to finish DickensThe book I am currently […]

Battle plans. Things that last about as long as it takes for the first player to start swinging their weapon.

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A young female graduate is blind to the grim truth about the older man she falls for when she takes a job on his farm in the PyreneesContrary to its title’s i […]

The Love Song Of M Religiosa by Nibedita Sen in Kaleidotrope A Mantis is kept in a laboratory. He yearns for She, another mantis in another tank. He is keen to […]

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Da Vinci’s Cat. Catherine Gilbert Murdock. 2021. [May] 278 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Federico leaped to his feet, reaching for his knife though he […]

In this, the 13th outing, the beans (who still need names) fail to have much luck. We have also discovered which party member preemptively shouts “I’m looting the […]

Octopussy Possibly the nadir of Roger Moore’s term as James Bond, and yet there’s something here! The internet claims it first appeared on TV in 1988 when I sho […]

Rescue. Jennifer A. Nielsen. 2021. [March] 400 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Papa stood at the gate by the road and waved goodbye. He wanted me to wave […]

Anne of Manhattan. Brina Starler. 2021. 327 pages. [Source: Library] First sentence: If there was one thing Anne Shirley would stand firm against all arguments, it […]