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 The Carhullan Army won the 2007 John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 2008 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science ...

Don’t you just love it when the main protagonist of the novel you’re reading is a 65 year old, female assassin contemplating retirement? Adm...

  Many people perceive poetry as slightly inaccessible due to difficulty in grasping the concept of metre, metaphor, hyperbole, assonance an...

As I was reading this I experienced a kind of Atkinson fusion of past books, crime and historical fiction but I think the Guardian summed it...

  Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 Study for Obedience is a startling work. It presents almost as a stream of consciousness, more struct...

 I’ve read all of Peter Papathanasiou’s George Manolis books and I love the fact that  the characters are constant yet the location and stor...

 I often feel that the short story is an underrated genre. But for me it’s a very satisfying one. The comparative brevity of a story gives y...