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Sugar and Snails
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Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home
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Underneath
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Stolen Summers: A heartbreaking tale of betrayal, confinement and dreams of escape
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The Congress of Rough Writers: Flash Fiction Anthology Vol. 1
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Becoming Someone
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GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Issue 4
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The Best of Fiction on the Web
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Somebody’s Daughter
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Lyrics for the Loved Ones
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Like an overloaded ship in the nineteenth century (which is the origin of the title), Gabriel is sinking under the weight of a surfeit of tragic life events. His only daughter has died in a traffic accident, his wife has left him and he's had to leav ...more | |
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Such mixed feelings about this novel. It’s described as funny and witty but I didn’t laugh until page 331. For the first two thirds I felt swamped by millennial self-pity as a young woman struggles to build herself an acceptable life. I didn’t think ...more | |
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I was entranced by this historical fiction novel set in 1950s India, in the aftermath of Partition. I thought that Anil Nijhawan portrayed the era particularly well so I could" Read more of this review » |
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"“The Plimsoll line” is a maritime term indicating how low a cargo-laden ship can sit in the water without sinking; here it’s used metaphorically to ask just how much one man can take. Gabriel Ariz is a 52-year-old art professor who lives not far from"
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"Lying in a hospice bed, 40-year-old Ivo looks back on his life. Even after just four short decades and a modest career at a garden center, he has plenty to regret. Hard partying and drug use exacerbated his diabetes and prompted kidney failure. His l"
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“I write to tame and organise the thoughts that bubble in my head. I write for the part of me that’s inconsolable and don’t have the hands or the talent for painting, pottery or the piano. I write because it’s proven more effective than screaming to communicate my personal truths. I write because publication provides the perfect payback for a painful childhood and because I’m addicted to alliteration, a glutton for grammar and ruled by the rule of three. I continue writing to discover where my imagination will take me; because if I stopped, I’d no longer be me.”
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“What I long for with a deep ache inside me is sacred music. I long for the Fauré Requiem, for the Haydn “Mass in Time of War,” for some pure celestial music that could lift me above myself, into that sphere where great art lives, beyond what man can be in himself, the intimation of the sacred—what cannot be dirtied or smudged by wickedness or by anger, which no threat can touch.”
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“Old age is really a disguise that no one but the old themselves see through. I feel exactly as I always did, as young inside as when I was twenty-one, but the outward shell conceals the real me—sometimes even from itself—and betrays that person deep down inside, under wrinkles and liver spots and all the horrors of decay. I sometimes think that I feel things more intensely than I used to, not less. But I am so afraid of appearing ridiculous. People expect serenity of the old. That is the stereotype, the mask we are expected to put on. But”
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“My anger, because I am old, is considered a sign of madness or senility. Is this not cruel? Are we to be deprived even of righteous anger? Is even irritability to be treated as a “symptom”? There”
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