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Annie Gagiano Reviews Intimate Strangers by Francis Nyamnjoh
Verdict: carrot Francis Nyamnjoh is probably better known in his academic capacity as a leading professor of social anthropology and a prolific author of scholarly publications with past appointments...
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Sue Norris Reviews Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Verdict: carrot The day Boy Novak runs off from her brutal father, a Lower East Side rat catcher, is the day she falls on the best luck of her 20 years. Seizing the last bus of the night, she lands...
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“Hard to Put Down and Vastly Entertaining”: Stephen King Recommends The Three...
Yesterday UK publishers Hodder and Stoughton shared the blurb that American horror master Stephen King has given to The Three by Sarah Lotz. Calling it “hard to put down and vastly entertaining,” King...
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Sunday Read: JRR Tolkien’s Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary to be...
JRR Tolkien’s 88-year-old translation of the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, will be published for the first time this May along with his academic commentary on the poem and a story, titled “Sellic...
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Alister Davison Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot The Three is a book that’s difficult to define, a tale that stretches across genres. Part horror, part sci-fi, part conspiracy thriller, part discourse on the nature of humanity itself,...
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Malcolm Jones Reviews All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Verdict: carrot All three of Dinaw Mengestu’s novels are about people who, for various reasons, come to this country and fashion new lives. But it would be a huge mistake — it would be an insult, in...
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Teju Cole Insists Twitter Improved his Writing
Teju Cole on reading Things Fall Apart before he was 10, his ideal literary dinner companions, and his Twitter essay that defied its medium. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Cole...
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Alanna Bestwick Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot The structure of The Three is truly brilliant; a book within a book made up of a series of interviews, letters, voice recordings, online messaging conversations and extracts from...
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Sunday Read: Tim Martin On Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Fictional Autobiography...
The third volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s controversial fictional autobiography Boyhood Island: My Struggle has been the topic of many fiery debates. In Norway, where he is from, “his ex-wife was...
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Maddie Crum Reviews Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
Verdict: carrot Teju Cole’s memoir-like novella, Every Day Is for the Thief, takes its name from a Nigerian proverb, “Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner.” This optimism regarding...
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US Cover Reveal and Blurb for Lauren Beukes’ New Novel, Broken Monsters
 > Alert! Mulholland Books, who are publishing the US edition of Lauren Beukes‘ new novel, Broken Monsters, have revealed the cover and blurb for the much-anticipated book. Beukes tweeted...
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Anita Felicelli Reviews Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Verdict: carrot Helen Oyeyemi’s luminous fifth novel Boy, Snow, Bird reimagines the Snow White fairytale as set in 1950s America. The novel opens, fittingly, with mirrors: “Nobody ever warned me about...
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Michael David Lukas Reviews Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
Verdict: carrot The air in Lagos, Nigeria, “is dense with story,” writes the narrator of Teju Cole’s remarkable new novel. A luminous rumination on storytelling and place, exile and return, “Every Day...
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Fiction Friday: Excerpt from Everyday is for the Thief by Teju Cole
Nigerian-American author Teju Cole’s novel Everyday is for the Thief was released internationally earlier this year. Originally published in Nigeria in 2007, the book creatively combines fiction,...
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Sunday Read: Kazuo Ishiguro to Publish First Novel in 10 Years (Plus:...
Kazuo Ishiguro will publish a new novel in 2015, 10 years since Never Let Me Go, Faber & Faber have announced. The new novel is entitled The Buried Giant, and according to Faber & Faber CEO...
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#STBooks: Take One Ugly Future and Heat Till Saucy, by Ben Williams
By Ben Williams for The Sunday Times The catchiest book title to bolt from South Africa’s fiction stable last year was Charlie Human’s, who named his speculative, supernatural take on Cape Town’s...
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Njabulo Ndebele and Mia Couto Among Speakers at 40th Annual ALA Conference...
 > The annual African Literature Association (ALA) 2014 Conference is being held from Wednesday 9 April to Sunday 13 April at The Professional Development Hub at University of the...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for...
Alert! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel, Americanah. A total of 158 nominations were whittled down to a longlist of twenty and...
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Ainehi Edoro Reviews The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani
Verdict: carrot In a 1986 interview, the Zimbabwean novelist, Dambudzo Marachera, speaks of a strange artistic sensibility. He speaks of how the will to write often takes him to “a region where a ghost...
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Tan Twan Eng, Marie NDiaye and Patrick Flanery on 2014 IMPAC Dublin Award...
Alert! Tan Twan Eng, Marie NDiaye and Patrick Flanery are among the ten authors shortlisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Award – “the world’s most valuable annual literary award for a single work of...
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