If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
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Don’t You Forget About Me
After earning rave reviews with her rock-and-roll memoir But Enough About Me, Jancee Dunn takes on fiction in this comically poignant debut, a perfect read for anyone who has ever… Continue Reading Posted in: Adult Fiction, Fiction, Women's Fiction
The Grass is Singing
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident,… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, Domestic Fiction, Fiction In English, Fiction In English 1945 1999 Texts, Historical African Fiction, Literary Criticism & Theory
So Many Ways To Begin
Coventry Museum curator David Carter cannot help but wish for more out of life. But Auntie Julia's careless words years earlier have left David restless with the knowledge that his… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Married People, Museum Curators
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
On Valentine’s Day 1998, Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened off-Broadway to rave reviews, revitalizing the rock musical while engendering a die-hard cult following, and the phenomenon of Hedwig was… Continue Reading Posted in: American Drama, Dramas & Plays, Librettos, Musicals
Reading in the Dark
A haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly;… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Irish Authors, Literature & Fiction
Hotel World
Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike, mesmerising Hotel World, set in the luxurious anonymity of the Global Hotel, in an unnamed northern English city. The disembodied yet interconnected characters… Continue Reading Posted in: Accident Victims, British Literature, Etc.), Fiction, Hotels, Literature & Fiction in Italian, Motels
Brother of the More Famous Jack
Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife, Jane,… Continue Reading Posted in: British Travel, Classic British & Irish Fiction, Classic Coming of Age Fiction, English Fiction, Teacher Student Relationships
The Sparsholt Affair
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a sweeping new novel that explores richly complex relationships between fathers and sons as it spans seven transformative decades in… Continue Reading
Blue Afternoon
Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Lawyers & Criminals Humor, Literary Satire Fiction, Man Woman Relationships
The Accidental
I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multi-storey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic,… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Dark Humor, Humorous American Literature, Social Conditions, Social History
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