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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Steph Harmon |Michael Sun |Alyx Gorman |Sian Cain |Beejay Silcox |Fiona Wright | +3 more
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Michael Sun |Alyx Gorman |Sian Cain |Beejay Silcox |Fiona Wright | +3 more
Salvage by Jennifer MillsScience fiction, Pan Macmillan, $34.99What does it mean to build a new world from the wreckage of a broken one? This question lies at the heart of Jennifer Mills’ mesmerising new novel, Salvage, which tracks the fortunes of two estranged sisters: gruff, defensive Jude and spectral Celeste. This is a work of speculative fiction, set in a near-future ravaged by war and climate crisis. To survive the chaos, Jude is convinced she needs to shed her past and avoid attachments.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Toby Lichtig |Beejay Silcox |Michael LaPointe |Houman Barekat
Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902. Glimpses of CamelotA storyteller steeped in the ‘psychic life of the land’When it came to creature comforts, Ithell Colquhoun did not require much.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | John Arlidge |Beejay Silcox |Kevin Brazil |Richard Smyth
Philip Larkin’s view of what parents do to their children might explain why “tech bros” have the ability, determination and drive needed to become global disruptors. Elon Musk’s combative relationship with his father instilled a drive to overcome any obstacle. Steve Jobs, who was given up for adoption, told his biographer Walter Isaacson: “Knowing I was adopted may have made me feel more independent”.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
msn.com | Beejay Silcox
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Beejay Silcox
Last week, the folks at Simon & Schuster in the US announced that they are no longer requiring their authors to scrounge and grovel for blurb quotes from literary luminaries (AKA friends, frenemies and coerced idols). Down with nepotism and unpaid labour! Up with democratic dust jackets! Begone hyperbole! Dazzling. Luminous. Tour de force. Good riddance to you all, you florid, empty guff.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Claire Lowdon |Beejay Silcox |Conor Truax |Damon Galgut
Han Kang was born in Gwangju in South Korea in 1970. Her family moved to Seoul four months before the Gwangju uprising, which took place in May 1980, during which the South Korean military violently suppressed student-led democratic protests and massacred up to 2,300 people. Han Kang researched the subject extensively for Human Acts (TLS, March 25, 2016; translated by Deborah Smith), now widely considered her masterwork.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Damon Galgut |Beejay Silcox |Conor Truax |Claire Lowdon
Despite its shocking subject matter (rape, incest, suicide), Eimear McBride’s debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (TLS, June 14, 2013), was largely critiqued in terms of its use of language. That said, the violence McBride wreaked on sentences was also, in its way, quite shocking. The opening paragraph gives a flavour: For you. You’ll soon. You’ll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she’ll wear your say. Mammy me? Yes, you. Bounce the bed, I’d say. I’d say that’s what you did.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Beejay Silcox |Kevin Brazil |Richard Smyth |Noreen Masud
There has been a great deal of institutional handwringing since the Australian writer Richard Flanagan won – and politely accepted – the 2024 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction in November, but spurned the attendant cash. (He said he would not accept the £50,000 prize money until the financial management firm commits to a reduction in fossil-fuel investment).
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Lindsey Hilsum |Conor Truax |Claire Lowdon |Beejay Silcox
In Gaza, parents have taken to writing their children’s names on their legs in black marker pen so, if the family is separated during an Israeli bombing, they have some hope of finding each other again; or at least of being able to identify a body. Medics are labelling a growing number of injured children “WCNSF” – Wounded Child, No Surviving Family.
