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Books

These Heavy Black Bones, Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, book review: ‘Gut-wrenching account of a person with a mixed ethnic background in a very white sport’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 2 January 2025 | 0
These Heavy Black Bones book cover

This insight into the world of swimming offers an ‘original angle on ethnicity, excellence and learning to see oneself anew’

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Sweet Sorrow, David Mitchell, book review: ‘Contemplative treatment of life’s essential questions’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 16 August 2019 | 0

The latest novel by the Highbury-based author of One Day is ‘brimming with laugh-out-loud humour’

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The Hunters, book review: ‘The moral turpitude of colonialism unfolds’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 9 July 2018 | 0

Kat Gordon’s second novel, set in inter-war Kenya, is apposite in today’s political climate

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Kismet, book review: ‘haunted by doubts about the authenticity of her life’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 21 June 2018 | 0
Luke Tredget

Whether Kismet means destiny or division, Anna is about to test it

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Hack The Planet: we talk to Finsbury Park author Nick Clark Windo about his prescient book The Feed

By Islington Citizen | Thursday 29 March 2018 | 0
"We feel a bit more in control of things than we ought...": Nick Clark Windo, author of The Feed. Photograph: Headline

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, we talk to the author about how ‘dangerously close to reality’ his dystopian novel really is

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