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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...

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‘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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