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Dec 11, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Nina Allan
Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nina Allan
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nina Allan
The quintessential “bad place” is one of the staples of horror fiction. For Stephen King, the bad place – think the peculiar little town of Castle Rock or the Overlook Hotel in The Shining – most usually acts as a repository for a long-forgotten evil or injustice to resurface (often literally, like the dead cat from the desecrated Native American burial ground in Pet Sematary).
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Catherine Taylor |Nat Segnit |Beejay Silcox |Nina Allan
Doors – as means of escape or entrapment, of release or privacy – proliferate in Roddy Doyle’s new novel. At the beginning of The Women Behind the Door, in which three older women are en route to their first Covid vaccination, a confused man is trapped in a lift; initially, he is mocked by the women, but a form of compassionate recognition comes to the fore: “Everything about him was defeated. He was lost in his body”.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Nat Segnit |Beejay Silcox |Catherine Taylor |Nina Allan
It is sobering to think that, if he continues to train at his current rate, Richard Powers may one day be able to generate a text all but indistinguishable from an actual work of literary fiction. Don’t be overly alarmed: it’s a way off yet.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nina Allan
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Nina Allan
“I’ll crash the car. // He didn’t shout, which is how I knew he meant it …” The “he” in I Will Crash is never named. He remains an enigma, though we come to know him intimately, or at least we think we do. The narrator’s name is Rosa; “he” is her older brother, who has just died in a car crash. The shock is so destabilising that Rosa finds herself unable to tell her boyfriend, John, what has happened until the following morning. But at the same time, the news is not unexpected.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Nina Allan
In Laura Jean McKay’s 2020 debut The Animals in That Country, a virus known as “zooflu” sweeps the world, giving humans the ability to intuit the thoughts of the nonhuman species with whom they share the planet. It won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction as well as a number of mainstream literary awards in McKay’s native Australia. With her short story collection, Gunflower, McKay reaffirms her virtuosic ability to twist consensus reality into unfamiliar shapes.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Nina Allan
Cult Canadian novelist Mona Awad is best known for her 2019 novel Bunny, which explores the toxic relationships between students on an elite creative writing programme. Her new book introduces us to beauty junkie Belle, so obsessed with her skincare routine she finds room for little else in life. The opening sees her catapulted back to California, where her mother Noelle, a failed screen actor, has recently died. Noelle’s death has been ruled an accident; for Belle, the story does not ring true.
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Aug 12, 2023 | 
bibliosurf.com | Nina Allan
Accueil> Tops, genres, pays et tags> Littératureseuropéennes> Littérature britanniquefil du web : du 12-08-2023 au 20-01-20244ème de couvConquest, septième roman de Nina Allan, renoue avec l’univers de La Fracture, succès de l’automne 2019 (sélectionné pour les prix Femina et Médicis étrangers). Le petit ami de Rachel, Frank, est différent des autres garçons. Rachel aime son innocence, son intelligence hors norme et sa passion dévorante pour la musique de Jean-Sébastien Bach.
