Tom Davies

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Review — 30 Apr 2018

Flames by Robbie Arnott

A cremated woman returns after her ashes are scattered in the bush. A water rat searches for the Cloud God. A wombat farmer who dreams of cormorants every night wakes…

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Review — 22 Jul 2019

The Returns by Philip Salom

Bookselling day in and day out is not what he expected. It is more like dreaming of love andwaking on the wrong side of the road.

The Returns centres on…

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Review — 23 Sep 2018

Papa Goose by Michael Quetting

In 2017, various institutes across Germany and Russia joined teams to form the International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, better known as ICARUS. The idea was to use satellites…

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Review — 19 Aug 2018

Take Nothing With You by Patrick Gale

In an attempt to rebound from his previous relationship, Eustace meets the calm and confident Theo on a dating app. Twenty years his junior, Theo is stationed on a military…

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Review — 19 Aug 2018

And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness & Rovina Cai

What if Moby Dick were told from the perspective of the whale? This is the question that inspired And The Ocean Was Our Sky, but it doesn’t nearly begin…

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Review — 22 Jul 2018

Happy Never After by Jill Stark

Five years after publishing High Sobriety, Jill Stark returns with Happy Never After, somewhere between a follow-up memoir and investigative journalism.

Where High Sobriety explored Stark’s and the…

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Review — 28 May 2018

Felix Culpa by Jeremy Gavron

The moment I heard about Jeremy Gavron’s new novel, I knew I had to read it. Felix Culpa starts with the death of a young man, a prison inmate, before…

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Review — 25 Feb 2018

Look At Me by Mareike Krugel

Look At Me is Mareike Krügel’s fourth novel, and her first to be translated into English. It opens with Katharina being called in to pick up her daughter, Helli, from…

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Review — 22 Jul 2018

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Goodnight Mister Tom follows the life of Willie as he is evacuated from London in the build-up to World War Two. Small and afraid, he blossoms under the kindness of…

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Review — 1 Jun 2021

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Having just diagnosed himself with every illness in his medical textbook, and feeling generally run down by the grind of the city, the narrator of Three Men in a Boat

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