A model-maker accepts a new commission to build a doll companion like his own to fill the emptiness of grief. From Flowers from the Void by Gianni Washington.

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03.05.2024

All You Have to Do Is Care - Bookanista

A poem that depicts the anxieties, emotions, resilience and joy of the creative process – and much more – from Salena Godden’s With Love, Grief and Fury.

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01.05.2024

The new censor - Bookanista

A new recruit clocks in at the Censorship Authority. Extract from bestselling Kuwaiti author Bothayna Al-Essa’s Kafkaesque satire The Book Censor’s Library.

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19.04.2024

An experiment in history - Bookanista

Paul Carlucci recounts the remarkable breakthrough in medical science on the Canadian frontier that spurred him to write his debut novel The Voyageur.

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17.04.2024

Debts I owe to books - Bookanista

Greg Mosse, author of the Alexandre Lamarque thrillers The Coming Darkness and The Coming Storm, picks out a top ten of books and authors that inspire him.

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13.04.2024

The horror of the self - Bookanista

The author of Well Beings delves into the popular representation of experimental health and wellness since the 1970s, including the films of David Cronenberg.

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12.04.2024

A lady falls - Bookanista

Extract from Harlem After Midnight, the second in Louise Hare’s pulsating Canary Club mysteries after Miss Aldridge Regrets, set in Jazz Age New York City.

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12.04.2024

And they lived happily ever after…? - Bookanista

Leeanne O’Donnell dissects our expectations of romantic love and desire in fiction, and the choices she made for her debut novel Sparks of Bright Matter.

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11.04.2024

A sitting duck - Bookanista

Local crime reporter Renfield sits in on an informal police briefing, and becomes aware of a get-rich-quick opportunity. From Deadline by Bill Knox.

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11.04.2024

A Tartan Noir original - Bookanista

Author and publisher JD Kirk explains why he was determined to reissue Bill Knox’s Thane & Moss thrillers and introduce them to a new generation of readers.

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05.04.2024

Anatomy of an obsession - Bookanista

As scandal breaks around an author she once idolised, Tatum Vega reassesses her formative years as a reader and a student of the arts. From Like Happiness.

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29.03.2024

Ever-changing chaos - Bookanista

Sonia Weir takes a tour of the bookshelves of psychologist and social scientist Sam Carr, author of All the Lonely People: Conversations on Loneliness.

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29.03.2024

A time for reading - Bookanista

“He doesn’t use complicated words – it’s just that his sentences often wander elsewhere.” A dawning of understanding from Stéphane Carlier’s Clara Reads Proust.

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28.03.2024

Island stories and other fictions - Bookanista

Guy Ware offers a perspective on his novel Our Island Story, a riotous satire about cynical politicians, wily myth-makers, corrupt police – and the rest of us.

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15.03.2024

Artists’ protest against the Eiffel Tower - Bookanista

The great and good of 19th-century Paris are outraged at Eiffel’s proposed “useless, monstrous” construction which threatens to dishonour this noblest of cities.

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13.03.2024

Judith Shakespeare - Bookanista

Ramie Targoff introduces Shakespeare’s Sisters, her engaging account of the lives and work of four ambitious and insistent Renaissance women writers.

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09.03.2024

Tell me a story - Bookanista

L.A. MacRae discusses the Scottish folklore, oral tradition and handed-down stories that feed into her debut novel And Now the Light Is Everywhere.

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07.03.2024

Elsa Drucaroff, Rodolfo Walsh and Argentina - Bookanista

Quentin Bates talks to Elsa Drucaroff about her fictional account of Rodolfo Walsh investigating the murder of his daughter by Argentina’s military regime.

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07.03.2024

A kind of truce - Bookanista

Rodolfo Walsh hears a rumour of the death of his daughter Vicki at the hands of the military police. Extract from Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case by Elsa Drucaroff.

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17.02.2024

Kate Brody: Missing people, muddled lives - Bookanista

Farhana Gani takes a deep dive into the world of Kate Brody’s pacy debut thriller Rabbit Hole to discuss its themes of grief, obsession and family trauma.

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16.02.2024

Barmaids and landladies in fiction - Bookanista

Tina Baker sets herself the tougher than expected task of selecting a Top Ten feisty fictional bar workers, in a nod to new thriller What We Did in the Storm.

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03.02.2024

No I won’t ‘calm down’ about Greta Gerwig - Bookanista

Kate Doyle follows the dazzling trajectory of Great Gerwig’s career from Frances Ha to Barbie – and laments that women directors rarely receive due credit.

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20.01.2024

The essential art of rewriting - Bookanista

Persistence and avoiding unnecessary distractions are key for aspiring novelists to move beyond the tricky first draft and keep honing, says Rebecca Thorne.

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19.01.2024

Locked-room mysteries - Bookanista

Author of Helle & Death Oskar Jensen doffs his hat to Golden Age and more recent precedents of escapist whodunnits with a closed circle of suspects.

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19.01.2024

O is for Oblomov - Bookanista

How Ivan Goncharov’s incorrigible slacker can guide us towards a more uplifting existence. From Exhausted: An A–Z for the Weary by Anna Katharina Schaffner

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18.01.2024

At the museum - Bookanista

A housewife leaves her husband and son to travel alone to Nagasaki, to understand the devastation caused by the atomic bomb. From Love at Six Thousand Degrees.

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18.11.2023

Ami Rao: All life is here - Bookanista

Mark Reynolds talks to the author of Boundary Road about writing a novel that ‘ends in the middle’ and contains a rich cacophony of individual voices.

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14.11.2023

A fresh start - Bookanista

Dinah Glover arrives in Tokyo to take up a university post beset by unspoken grief as she tries to adapt to her new surroundings. From Bird Life by Anna Smaill.

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31.10.2023

We and our cats - Bookanista

Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator of Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa’s She and Her Cat, examines how the everyday life of cats in Japan is not always pretty.

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27.10.2023

A summer night - Bookanista

A man is pursued by a giant sea monster emerging from the shadows of St. Vitus Cathedral in this Kafkaesque story by Michal Ajvaz from The Book of Prague.

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21.10.2023

The sparks of an obsession - Bookanista

Sunny Singh recalls the heady summer when she became hooked on Hindi cinema on the release of Manmohan Desai’s Parvarish. From A Bollywood State of Mind.

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21.10.2023

Liminal spaces and impossible things - Bookanista

Menna van Praag traces her obsession with fantasy to her reading of C.S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll, as well as Neil Gaiman, Kelly Barnhill and Erin Morgenstern.

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13.10.2023

Arianespace - Bookanista

An investigator from the Task Force for the Study of Non-identified Aerospace Phenomena looks into a bewitching new sighting. From Canoes by Maylis de Kerangal.

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13.10.2023

Connecting with lost souls - Bookanista

Anbara Salam explains how a blind date with a psychic medium led her to explore the Spiritualist movement in 1920s Edinburgh and inspired her novel Hazardous Spirits.

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18.09.2023

from Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit - Bookanista

Jen Campbell introduces two poems from her latest collection, about the emotional rollercoaster of extended IVF treatment and a complicated medical history.

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14.09.2023

A semblance of order - Bookanista

Ana Sampson walks us through her home bookshelves, where poetry collections are front and centre, and (almost) everything has its place.

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13.09.2023

Here or there - Bookanista

Georgie is torn between a potential night of lust with her new lover and the relative comforts of home and family. Extract from Arms & Legs by Chloe Lane.

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04.09.2023

Making sense of the past and present - Bookanista

Anjum Hasan discusses squaring history and current events in her intimate portrait of contemporary Delhi, History’s Angel, and tells us about her inspirations.

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04.09.2023

Spooky houses with eerily lit windows - Bookanista

Rebecca Turkewitz #HereintheNight picks her favourite covers of ghost and monster novels, from Poe to Shirley Jackson and Stephen King and recent releases.

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21.08.2023

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ - Bookanista

A BookToker’s claims for ‘the scariest book ever written’ send Danielle Valentine back to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic story about postpartum depression.

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A lady falls - Bookanista

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A sitting duck - Bookanista

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Anatomy of an obsession - Bookanista

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A time for reading - Bookanista

Island stories and other fictions - Bookanista

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Judith Shakespeare - Bookanista

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Kate Brody: Missing people, muddled lives - Bookanista

Barmaids and landladies in fiction - Bookanista

No I won’t ‘calm down’ about Greta Gerwig - Bookanista

The essential art of rewriting - Bookanista

Locked-room mysteries - Bookanista

O is for Oblomov - Bookanista

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