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The year’s range of Jewish holidays and celebrations are presented in this repeating, rhyming chant that features key succinct elements for each...Both lovely and eminently useful.

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This little bit of bedtime foolery feels a little incomplete, but it should strike a chord—and it’s far wittier than the similarly themed Go the Fuck to Sleep.

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Jones, who was born in Alaska, uses his intimate knowledge of the state, his fondness for the Inupiat people and their traditions, and his eye for politicians’ excruciatingly funny incongruities to produce a well-rounded and appealing portrait of America’s Last Frontier.

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By mixing panels with and without text, Porcellino creates a poetic alternation of words and silences that effectively draws the reader into Thoreau’s point of view.

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But Dillon does not shy away from letting us in, obliquely but unmistakably, to his own personal struggles with depression and anxiety. In these more personal passages, he resembles a critic...

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At the heart of the novel is Áine, who, bored with post-divorce life, takes risks that seem “unbelievable” yet mirror those we take every day. Áine’s growing realisation of those risks makes for a sobering life lesson and a gripping read.

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It is a forgivable flaw, given the accomplishment of this novel, which has universal appeal in its reflections on love and yet carries a glorious local specificity, even more so than 26a, which was set in the Neasden of Evans’s youth.

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While this sounds like it might be the set-up for a standard triumph-against-adversity narrative, a fall-and-rise story, Proulx has something considerably stronger, and subtler, in store.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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It’s ultimately a mark of Welsh’s magic in having created such memorable characters in the first place that they survive this cartoonish revision.

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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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It becomes clear that this book is both hard-hitting and uplifting: it serves as an indictment of the care industry, but also a tribute to the way humans care for one another.

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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.

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The result is a piece of work that is not so much a memoir as an eloquent manifesto for what Levy calls “a new way of living” in the post-familial world.

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Available only for the last five years in Russia itself, a searing document, worthy of shelving alongside Solzhenitsyn.

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With its endearingly maverick heroine, Ms Nors’s novel delivers a bracing antidote to the cult of hygge—which has smothered Denmark’s global image under a hand-knitted jumper of sentimental bonhomie.

The Economist

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors

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