Chris Womersley
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'A Mercy' by Toni Morrison
Chris Womersley
A Mercy sees America's last Nobel laureate for literature weighing in with her first novel in five years and returning to some of the...
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‘Miracles of Life’ by JG Ballard
Chris Womersley
In the same way that Gabriel Garcia Marquez downplays elements of the fantastic in his work, JG Ballard's autobiography demonstrates...
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‘The Book is Dead: Long Live the Book’ by Sherman Young
Chris Womersley
This is a tidy manifesto which argues that, in the same way news has become separated from newspapers, and radio programs (think podcasting...
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‘The Cleft’ By Doris Lessing
Chris Womersley
After making four Booker Prize shortlists and covering literary territory as diverse as science fiction, autobiography, libretti and non-...
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‘The Museum of Doubt’ By James Meek
Chris Womersley
This is a hyperactive collection of eight short stories and a novella. There's the wolfish salesman Jack, vomiting a severed deer's...
More ...‘Fast, Loose Beginnings: A Memoir of Intoxications’ By John Kinsella
Chris Womersley
The advance publicity for John Kinsella's memoir - which included restraining orders taken out against fellow poets Robert Adamson and...
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