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"Le Bateau ivre" première page de la copie manuscrite par Paul Verlaine vers 1871.

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Book Review: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Book Review: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

A decade on from the publication of her international bestselling debut Free Food for Millionaires, Min Jin Lee returns with a sprawling epic saga exploring the Korean experience in 20th century Japan through the stories of four generations of a single family. Opening in the seaside Korean city of Busan, Pachinko begins with an aging fisherman and his wife bringing up their son in the aftermath…

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Men Like Air: An Interview with Tom Connolly

Yesterday saw the publication of Tom Connolly’s second novel Men Like Air. This follow-up to his debut novel The Spider Truces tells the story of 19-year-old Finn who has travelled to New York City to confront his brother who escaped to the city after the death of their parents some years earlier. Elsewhere in New York, a successful gallery owner named Leo is confronting his own demons, those of…

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Book Review: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach 

Book Review: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach

Scott Stambach’s debut novel The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko tells the story of the titular Ivan, a 17-year-old lifelong resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children. Born 18 months after the devastating Chernobyl disaster, like many children in the region Ivan was born physically deformed and disabled, without any legs and with just one arm and three fingers. His 17 years of…

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Book Review: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1993, The Virgin Suicides is the cult debut novel from American author Jeffrey Eugenides. Set in Eugenides’ native Michigan, the story recounts the sinister suicides of five teenage sisters in the leafy suburban town of Grosse Pointe. Told in the past tense 20 years after the suicides from the perspective of a…

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Book Review: breach by Annie Holmes & Popoola Olumide

Book Review: breach by Annie Holmes & Popoola Olumide

“Here they are nameless; it doesn’t matter what they call themselves, they disappear and dissolve. Here it is muteness. It doesn’t have a name.”—“Expect Me”, Olumide Popoola breach is the first book in the new Peirene Now! series from London-based publisher Peirene Press. Originally established to champion translated fiction for Anglophone readers, Peirene Press has now turned its head towards…

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Interview: Olumide Popoola, Co-Author of Breach

Interview: Olumide Popoola, Co-Author of Breach

Today I am both fortunate and excited to be hosting an exclusive interview on the blog with Olumide Popoola, lecturer at Goldsmiths and co-author of Peirene Press’ first commissioned work, breach. Set for publication this Monday (1st August), this timely collection of short stories is set in and around the Calais refugee camp and explores both the stories and displacement of the refugees…

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Book Review: When Paris Sizzled by Mary McAuliffe

Book Review: When Paris Sizzled by Mary McAuliffe

The Roaring Twenties, or Les Années Folles as they are known to our cousins across the Channel, were a time of rip-roaring change across Europe. Sandwiched between two devastating World Wars, it was an era of rapid technological and cultural change which would lay down the foundations for the modern world as we know it today. In this follow-up to her Dawn of the Belle Epoque—which dealt with the…

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Book Review: The Girls by Emma Cline

Book Review: The Girls by Emma Cline

One of the most hyped book releases of summer 2016, The Girls is the debut novel by Columbia MFA graduate Emma Cline. Set in Cline’s native California predominantly in the late 1960s, the novel is a semi-fictionalised recreation of the Manson Family murders told from the perspective of 14-year-old Evie Boyd. Written in first-person, the perspective is told in retrospect by an older Evie in her…

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Book Review: Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard 

Boyhood Island is the third instalment in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s acclaimed “My Struggle” series, translated by Don Bartlett. While the second novel in the series, A Man in Love, dealt with Knausgaard’s experiences of fatherhood in Stockholm, this third book rewinds through history to recount his early childhood growing up with his brother Yngve on the island of Tromøya. Knausgaard did write about…

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Bouquinistes sur les Quais , Paris vers 1900 .

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