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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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CUE BALL, By Tom Meadows
Most people don’t live in a building with a Wikipedia page, or in a flat that would bankrupt you to rent, a flat that needs three boilers to heat, a flat that should normally be owned only by overseas oil barons. It squats across the top three floors of an old Georgian building plastered with…
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THEY CALLED ME KYLE, by Owen Bridge
They can only see me if I let them, not like Emma, she doesn’t like to be seen. When I was little, before I moved here, I lived in a big house in the countryside.
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CORDELIA FELDMAN PRIZE FOR LIFE WRITING WINNER : BEDIYE TOPAL
Cordelia Feldman Prize for Life Writing Birkbeck Creative Writing and the family of Birkbeck alumni Cordelia Feldman, are delighted to announce the inaugural Cordelia Feldman Prize for Life Writing. Statement From the Feldman Family This prize is awarded in commemoration of the writing life of Cordelia Jade Feldman (15th May 1979-8th January 2022), who completed…
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WELL DONE ME, by Cordela Feldman – EXTRACT
I’m sitting up in bed at my parental home, writing this on Mum’s computer. At the moment I spend about four days per week here, and three days at my flat. This house, where I spent the first thirty years of my life, is in Radlett in leafy Hertfordshire, just on the edge of the…
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NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, by Annabel Banks
Their fight will begin after dinner, once the plates are in the dishwasher, the surfaces wiped. This is unavoidable.
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DRIM, by Nick Norton
In The Villa they now wore grey jumpsuits, Velcro fastening, staff and guest alike wore the same. Ignatz alone wore a white jumpsuit. Everyone looked similar, although Garry Gold smelt very different.
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ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, by SJ Ryan
“Little old ladies…they should be taken out and shot.” Flecks of saliva spat from his mouth as he banged down the discoloured telephone.
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DEAD MOUSE, by Charlotte Turnbull
When we finally found it in the corner of the downstairs loo – the dead mouse – the children covered their noses with their sleeves and refused to eat breakfast in the kitchen because of an alleged lingering smell.
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