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Tag: Novel

Permission by Saskia Vogel – a stunning debut about grief and healing

29th June 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Saskia Vogel’s beautifully written debut, Permission, is about sex, power, and, yes, BDSM. But it’s also about grief, belonging and the healing that comes from such intimacy, writes our guest editor Elodie Rose Barnes.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: BDSM, Camille Paglia, Dialogue Books, LGBTQ+, Novel, Permission, Pride, Queer Relationships, Saskia Vogel, sexuality

Interview with award-winning novelist, Kim Sherwood – ‘There is a boldness now in women’s writing, a refusal to apologise’

10th June 202011th June 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Kim Sherwood, award-winning author of Testament, talks to Miriam Al Jamil about her debut novel and its origins, her creative process and her exciting second novel.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Agatha Christie, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ali Smith, Anne Michael, Art Speigelman, Beyond Boxes, Deborah Levy, Fugitive Pieces, George Baker, holocaust, Kim Sherwood, Laurent Binet, Mark Rothko, Mass Observation Archive, Maus, Novel, Paul Klee, Riverrun, Testament, Zadie Smith

The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu – a beautiful, funny, warm debut

13th December 201913th December 2019  Victoria Smith

With The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney, Okechuckwu Nzelu has crafted a brilliant novel about a young woman trying to discover her Nigerian roots and navigate the complexities of love.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Cambridge, Dialogue Books, Novel, Okechukwu Nzelu, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney

Speaking from the Body: Trauma, Pregnancy and the Eighth Amendment in Contemporary Irish Writing

15th September 201922nd May 2020  Laura Hackett

For women in Northern Ireland and a post-Repeal Republic telling stories which speak from the body and its traumas remains a powerful tool, argues Laura Hackett when considering the work of Sally Rooney, Lucy Caldwell, Sinéad Gleeson and others.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Abortion, Anna Burns, Being Various, Constellations, Conversations with Friends, Eimear McBride, Fiction, Ireland, Irish Literature, Lucy Caldwell, Milkman, Normal People, Novel, Pan Macmillan, Rebecca O'Connor, Sally Rooney, Savita Halappanavar, Short Stories, Short Story, Sinéad Gleeson, The Eighth Amendment, The Lesser Bohemians

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss – a slim slip of a book, with so much depth within

21st August 201921st August 2019  Rebecca Clark

An Iron Age re-enactment in Northumberland takes a brutal turn in Sarah Moss’ Ghost Wall. With parallels to Brexit Britain, Moss’ slender novel is a coming-of-age tale with a twist.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Brexit, Brexit Britain, Ghost Wall, Iron Age Britain, Novel, Sarah Moss, Tiny Letter, Women Cook For Me, Women's Prize

The Farm by Joanne Ramos – a gripping read that questions the fertility industry

5th August 20195th August 2019  Tilda Bowden

Joanne Ramos’ ambitious debut novel, The Farm, questions the ethics of surrogacy and charts the lives of four women who become involved in a spa-like fertility facility in a bid to have a more secure, comfortable life.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Bloomsbury Fiction, dystopia, Fertility Industry, Joanne Ramos, Margaret Atwood, Novel, Surrogacy, The Farm

Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread – a surreal and fantastical story about mother-daughter relationships

20th May 201920th May 2019  Carla Plieth

Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, Gingerbread, surreally blurs fact and fiction in a tale involving three generations of women who love to bake.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Barbara Comyns, Brothers Grimm, Emily Dickinson, Fiction, Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi, magic realism, Novel, Surrealism

Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under – a clever, murky retelling of the Oedipus myth

29th April 201930th April 2019  Victoria Smith

Daisy Johnson’s 2018 Man Booker-shortlisted novel, Everything Under, rewrites the Oedipus myth into a mother-daughter story set in an eerie, waterlogged world.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: A Thousand Acres, Anna Leszkiewicz, Brothers Grimm, Cambridge Literary Festival 2019, Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, Fen, Fiction, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Jane Smiley, Man Booker Prize, Novel, Oedipus, Penguin, Revolting Rhymes, Roald Dahl, Vintage
Feature image is of a British concentration camp for Boer women and children during the Boer war.

You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr – a powerful, poignant, must-read book

22nd April 201922nd April 2019  Ishita Ranjan

Damian Barr’s moving debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here, follows the stories of two people who lived over one hundred years apart, but whose lives are inexplicably connected through the colonial horrors of the past.

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Posted in Arts, Books, GeneralTagged: Bloomsbury Fiction, Boer War, Britain and Colonialism, Damian Barr, Fiction, Novel, Partition, You Will Be Safe Here

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins – a stunning, atmospheric debut

8th April 201922nd April 2019  My Ly

After several years in London, Jamaican servant Frannie Langton finds herself on trial for the murder of her English master and mistress – but she has no memory of that fatal evening. Our arts contributor, My Ly, reviews Sara Collins’ atmospheric and evocative debut novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Britain and Colonialism, Cambridge, Creative Writing, Frannie Langton, Gothic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Neo-Victorian, Nineteenth-Century Britain, Novel, Penguin, Sara Collins, Slavery and the British Empire, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Viking
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