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April 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Carl Shuker: A Mistake

A Mistake  Carl Shuker  VUP  The literary page-turner – a rare beast. Pip Adam can do it. John Colapinto managed it with both fiction and non-fiction and here Carl Shuker manages it and essentially turns non-fiction into fiction, or frames fiction via non-fiction and/or vice-versa. But what’s true, instantly, of A Mistake, his fifth novel, is that the writing is electric, the […]
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November 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Daniel Handler: All The Dirty Parts

All The Dirty Parts: A Novel Daniel Handler Bloomsbury Daniel Handler has made his name under a penname first and foremost – his Lemony Snicket books are not the only string to his bow though, and under his own (real) name he has released a handful of (adult) novels. The latest, All The Dirty Parts, […]
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