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Patient X is told in Peace’s trademark fragmented, incantatory style, as distinctive in its way as, say, full-blown Henry James, using repetition, hyperbole and italicised interior monologue to create swirling hallucinatory effects.

Guardian

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Still, this isn’t Henry James and doesn’t aspire to be: it’s a rip-roaring beach read about literary life, the fools we make of ourselves in pursuit of love and fame, and the whirligig of time bringing in, as it always does, its revenges.

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Cannon’s previous career as an NHS psychiatrist infuses her writing. She treats her characters with immense care and compassion, inviting the reader not merely to be interested in them but to show them concern and empathy...

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The smart, believable denouement will have readers looking forward to Brar’s next endeavor. A remarkable whodunit that’s as sharp as it is concise.

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With The Last Hours, she has swapped that taut plotting for a more expansive structure and ambitiously broad canvas. Whether it will win over her previous fans remains to be seen but, as the inhabitants of Develish discover, striking out for the unknown is a worthwhile adventure, whatever the outcome.

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Handled with less inventive prose, a book like this might feel like a series of Stephen King-ish portraits of small people being horrible. But McGregor’s too inventive a writer not to dazzle and surprise, to create moments that confound and stir.

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It’s neat shorthand for the book itself: in The Reservoir Tapes so many possible lines of inquiry are offered that we end up no wiser than before.

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Overall, the book artfully asks probing questions about the basic human need for mythology of whatever kind and about the point at which the tensile cord of innocent fascination snaps. An intoxicating tale that’s simultaneously gaudy and exquisite.

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...a few of the weaker pieces could have been left on the editing room floor. That said, the thematic consistency is so strong that the reader leaves the book with the wondrous sense of having spent a lifetime among the crooks and malcontents of central Alabama and having come away much wiser for the experience.

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Brother is an exquisite novel, crafted by a writer as talented and precise as Junot Díaz and Dinaw Mengestu. It has a beating heart and a sharp tongue. It is elegant, vital, indubitably dope – the most moving book I’ve read in a year.

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Capturing the intensity of the groves of academe might require this kind of elevated puffery, but at times the meat is hard to stomach. Still, Kwon delivers a poignant and powerful look into the millenial mindset. It can be rocky, but it can also rock.

NPR

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And the ending, in which Jen retraces her daughter’s actual footsteps, feels both cathartic and satisfying – more so than any high-concept shock twist could have been.

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Much of the pleasure of reading this remarkable novel comes from its passionate dedication to the power of stories.

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If you go for Welsh’s stuff, as I do, you’ll go for Dead Men’s Trousers with great enthusiasm. If you don’t … well, you were warned.

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This is a superb novel, from a writer building a body of work the equal of any today. His books are filled with love and righteous anger, most of which lurks darkly beneath the surface ready to explode like an ill-judged comment at a family gathering.

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Ultimately, though, the reason to read this compelling and hypnotic novel is not the execution of the plot or the sleight-of-hand final revelation. What makes it stand out is Abbott’s expert dissection of women’s friendships and rivalries.

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This whole section is reminiscent of Tyler’s best work, such as Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Unfortunately, the dark edge of Clock Dance’s early pages soon gives way to a much more sentimental narrative.

Guardian

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From that year-long experience he has fashioned a subtle and touching book, offered as fiction but rich in topical allusions.

The Economist

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The novel shows some early promise – a discussion of their displacement from Lebanon is illuminating, and contrasts are set up between the friends’ faiths - but sadly this is not explored with any degree of depth. Instead, indirect inner monologues create flat and binary characters...

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Moshfegh’s strategy is similar here — the narrator quits her job at a tony art gallery in gross-out fashion. But under the novel’s veneer of absurdity and provocation is a nuanced study of emotional helplessness.

Star Tribune

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