I love a good multigenerational family saga with strong women at its heart – perhaps one like Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing – and…
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If you, like me, are looking forward to this year’s Women in Translation Month and anticipating all the new books and writers…
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Book ReviewsFeaturedJapan
At the End of the Matinee review: Keiichiro Hirano tackles 21st century love
A post on about romance in books reminded me that I had been meaning to write this At the End of the…
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An interview with Jack Byrne, author of Under the Bridge
by John Maguireby John MaguireLiverpool’s past and present weaves itself around Jack Byrne’s debut novel Under the Bridge. The first part of his Liverpool Mysteries series,…
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The 1956 Club inspired this The Lonely Londoners review, but although Sam Selvon vividly conveys ’50s London via a group of recently…
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Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four…
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My Mummy is a Monster! An interview with author Natalie Reeves Billing
by John Maguireby John MaguireMy Mummy is a Monster, My Children are Monsters, perhaps two phrases that are being used increasingly as we enter the Xth…
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There comes a time in any young life where the senses are suddenly open and art of any genus strikes like a…
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Book ReviewsFeaturedLiverpool
Ten Years On The Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett
by John Maguireby John MaguireI have often wished I could step back in time to see the Mersey in its golden years brimming with vessels setting…
