Hamnet
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Hamnet

You should read Hamnet if you enjoy magical realism.

You should read Hamnet if you’re interested in a fictional account of the Black Death’s effects in an intergenerational family context.

But you should only read Hamnet only if you can accept it’s fatal flaw.

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Young Mungo
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Young Mungo

It feels impossible to talk about Douglas Stuart’s 2022 Young Mungo without talking about the cover.

This is a novel whose very merit lies in the words on the page, is it not? Why must the cover matter at all?

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All The Broken Places
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All The Broken Places

With all the praise All The Broken Places received, and so quickly after it’s release, I found myself wanting to dislike it; to be the one to find its gaping flaw.

Unfortunately I could not.

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True Biz
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True Biz

True Biz is truly insightful, and falsely positioned.

We all know that a great book makes you feel as if you've stepped inside someone else's shoes. Sara Nović achieves this three times over…

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Cultish
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Cultish

This survey of "the language of fanaticism" is perhaps more relevant than ever in our internet-fuelled twenty-first century world…

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Born a Crime
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Born a Crime

Recommended to me as “the gold standard of memoir audiobooks”, this memoir was easy to digest and, indeed, made all the more enjoyable by Trevor’s narration.

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