Alex Hyde | 'If I was ever going to write something, I was going to start with this story'

Academic Alex Hyde‘s first novel is a lyrical tale about two women named Violet during the Second World War. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-26 18:23:13 UTC ]

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Of Roots and Reckonings: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, by Adele Newson-Horst

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[ World Literature Today | 2021-08-18 20:12:10 UTC ]
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Werner Herzog to tell story of Japanese soldier who refused to surrender

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[ The Guardian | 2021-08-18 12:56:08 UTC ]
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Dolly Parton to publish her first novel in 2022

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[ The Guardian | 2021-08-11 16:27:28 UTC ]
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Influx Press launches first novel prize for Black British women with Black Ballad

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[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-27 19:32:32 UTC ]
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Ruth Ozeki | 'As an artist I have relationships with fictional voices all the time'

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[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-09 19:27:08 UTC ]
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21 Books for the 21st Century: The Results of Our Readers’ Poll, by The Editors of WLT

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[ World Literature Today | 2021-06-28 13:32:05 UTC ]
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Fifty Years Later, a New Novel Emerges

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[ The Millions | 2021-06-24 09:59:45 UTC ]
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Penguin Michael Joseph pre-empts Lim's 'poetic' memoir of family secrets

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[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-19 12:40:25 UTC ]
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Review: Spellbinding novelist Rivka Galchen's new book is a hysterical witch hunt

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[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-06-03 14:00:33 UTC ]
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Deborah Harkness’s Witches, from Page to Screen, by Camille Thompson

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[ World Literature Today | 2021-05-27 13:42:23 UTC ]
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William Collins pre-empts Finkelstein's family memoir of war-time persecution

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[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-05 16:01:10 UTC ]
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Review: Rachel Cusk trades in a blank-slate narrator for a tall drink of vinegar

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[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-28 14:00:33 UTC ]
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[ Literrary Hub | 2021-04-23 13:30:34 UTC ]
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Lyn Macdonald, acclaimed chronicler of World War I, dies at 91

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[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-19 20:44:59 UTC ]
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[ Literrary Hub | 2021-03-03 21:01:23 UTC ]
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