Reviews
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SIX OF THE BEST, by Tim Bradford
Probably shouldn’t include something by a Birkbeck staffer but I’m not a student now so – fuck it.
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ENCOUNTERS WITH EVERYDAY MADNESS ( CHARLIE HILL), Reviewed by Summer Kendrick
Hill plays with form throughout the book, to great effect. Some stories are epistolic, others are poems, reports or trailing snags of small talk on the School Run. The use of experimental form compliments the overall theme and objectives of the collection, reminding us that rules and reality are flexible conditions.
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THE RABBIT HUTCH (TESS GUNTY), reviewed by Natasha Carr-Harris
There are grand, overarching themes which loom portentously over the unfolding personal narratives, omens of ecological doom and economic collapse and a depressing paucity of societal communion, all echoed by carefully detailed accounts of the city’s deterioration and stricken portraits of its unhappy denizens.
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SINGAPORE (EVA ALDEA), Reviewed by Katy Severson
In Eva Aldea’s debut novel, Singapore is hot and humid, tense, sterile and slow. There are snakes and crabs, expat housewives with Filipina maids.
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CROW FACE, DOLL FACE (CARLY HOLMES), Reviewed by Mara Girone
Mystery, magic, mental illness and the wrecking of important relationships are some of the elements that make Crow Face, Doll Face a success.
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PJ HARVEY READS ORLAM AT CONWAY HALL, Reviewed by Amy Ridler
Orlam is an exploration of Dorset myth, woven into the changing of the seasons. There are two worlds in Orlam – The first is the real world (farm), the second world is made of dreams and visions (the woods).
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