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February 02, 2013

Book Review: Ways of Going Home

February 02, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The newest novel from the newest Chilean literary wunderkind

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February 02, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, February 2013, fiction
January 31, 2013

Book Review: The Best of Youth

January 31, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In Michael Dahlie's new novel, an idle young millionaire ghost-writes a book for an arrogant Hollywood star

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January 31, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2013
January 27, 2013

Book Review: The Illicit Happiness of Other People

January 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The death of a talented teenage artist spins his family and friends into turmoil in Manu Joseph's incredibly accomplished second novel.

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January 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2013
January 25, 2013

Book Review: The Fall of the Stone City

January 25, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In the latest Ismail Kadare novel to be translated into English, an Albanian doctor invites the invading Nazis to an elaborate dinner at his house - but what exactly happens that night, to the strains of Schubert?

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January 25, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2013
January 17, 2013

Book Review: The Boy

January 17, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In Lara Santoro's new novella, an older woman falls head-over-heels into a physical passion for a younger man - with consequences that threaten to tear her life apart

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January 17, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2013
January 06, 2013

Book Review: Scenes from Early Life

January 06, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly

A talented novelist writes the story of his husband's family's experiences in war-torn Bangladesh - but is it life, or art?

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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2013
December 08, 2012

Book Review: A Dangerous Inheritance

December 08, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Historian Alison Weir's latest novel features two young heroines, separated by 80 years but united by their fascination with one of history's mysteries: the fate of the Princes in the Tower

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alison weir, contemporary fiction, December 2012, fiction, Keeping up with the tudors, Richard III, tudor fiction
November 29, 2012

Book Review: Kafka in Love

November 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Franz Kafka was eternally affianced but never married - maybe more in love with the concept of love than with any particular woman. A new novel intensely dramatizes the writer and his passions.

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contemporary fiction, fiction, historical fiction, Kafka, November 2012
November 27, 2012

Book Review: The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

November 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Trying to mind his own business, a man at a Yankees game refuses to stand for a singing of "God Bless America" - and all Hell breaks loose.

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November 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, November 2012
November 01, 2012

Now in Paperback: Forever Rumpole

November 01, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A generous collection of stories featuring John Mortimer's immortal creation, wine-swilling judge-taunting criminal-defending barrister, Horace Rumpole of the Old Bailey

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November 01, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, November 2012
October 04, 2012

Now in Paperback: The Paperboy

October 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Pete Dexter's lean, harrowing novel of murder and ambition is coming to the big screen with a full complement of movie stars - and a new paperback edition of the book is a happy by-product.

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October 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, October 2012
September 29, 2012

Book Review: The Exceptions

September 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The son of a powerful crime family falls in love with a young woman in the Witness Protection Program - a young woman his family wants dead! Don't you hate it when that happens?

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September 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, September 2012
July 21, 2012

Book Review: Equal of the Sun

July 21, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

16th Century Iran comes alive in a new novel

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July 21, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, historical fiction, July 2012
June 14, 2012

Book Review: Capital

June 14, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In John Lanchester's new novel, a posh London street is hit hard when the housing bubble bursts

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June 14, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, June 2012
June 05, 2012

Book Review: The Family Corleone

June 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Veteran writer Ed Falco pens a prequel to "The Godfather," featuring the rise of a crime family - and the story of a vicious strongman named Luca Brasi.

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June 05, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, June 2012
May 17, 2012

Book Review: HHhH

May 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A popular French book about the daring assassination of a Nazi official in 1942 receives an English translation

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May 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, May 2012
April 27, 2012

Book Review: The Uninvited Guests

April 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A darkly dazzling new Edwardian novel to tempt fans of "Downton Abbey"

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April 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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April 2012, contemporary fiction, fiction
March 11, 2012

Book Review: The Inquisitor

March 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new thriller features an implacable torturer-for-hire as its problematic protagonist.

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March 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, March 2012
February 29, 2012

Book Review: History of a Pleasure Seeker

February 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In Richard Mason's latest novel, a handsome, articulate young man takes a job with a wealthy family as tutor for their troubled son

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February 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, March 2012
February 27, 2012

Book Review: Watergate

February 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Thomas Mallon's latest novel dramatizes the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration

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February 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, February 2012, fiction, historical fiction, richard nixon
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