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How do you write crime fiction in the wake of a massacre?

The mass slaughter on Utøya in July shook Norway to its core. Now the country's crime writers must come to terms with what happened… Covered corpses lie on the shore of the small Norwegian island of...

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Say Her Name, By Francisco Goldman

Francisco Goldman's fourth novel is based on a real tragedy in which his wife, Aura Estrada, broke her neck while body-surfing along the Mexican coast, and died. She had recently turned 30. They had...

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Graphic novel recommendations for summer reading 2012 part 4

Related topics graphic novelsMarvel ComicsDC ComicsImage ComicsDark Horse Comics Advertisement Graphic novel recommendations for summer reading 2012 part 4. As the days of summer begin to wind down...

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Absolution, By Patrick Flanery

Flanery's novel is related in different narrative streams that eventually meet. Chapters alternate in their viewpoints: Clare and Sam each recount the present; Clare writes a second-person version of...

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Grandeur of traditional theatre

The Fourth Annual Kootiyattam Festival presented by Nepathya at Muzhikkulam offered two full-scale works this year: the first act of Kulasekhara's ‘Subhadradhananjayam' (eight nights) and...

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Review of Utopia: Series 1, episode 1

It’s ironic that for a series titled Utopia, the characters that inhabit its colourful labyrinth of mysteries and murder are as far from paradise as it’s possible to be. Channel 4’s new conspiracy...

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How is Hamlet Like Batman? Author Gregg Hurwitz Connects Comics and...

There's a question that author Gregg Hurwitz gets asked often. Why would someone who has written scholarly papers about Shakespeare also pen thrillers? Undoubtedly, a love of the Bard of Avon and a...

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Labyrinthine world of rumours and lies

The White Lie By Andrea Gillies (Short Books, R194,95) Dysfunctional families abound, in fiction as in life. Delve deep enough past the façade and most families are damaged to some degree. The...

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Review: So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman

So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman is a captivating tale of life and death in a small town. From the very first page, readers are welcomed into the town of Haeden in upstate New York, and into the world...

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In Carol Anshaw’s ‘Carry the One,’ narcissism trumps guilt

The plot of Carol Anshaw’s new novel would seem to be about the ramifications of a single, tragic event. What it really is about is narcissism in its most extreme forms. Following Carmen’s wedding,...

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Former Chinese Official Sheds Light On The Dark Side Of Power

Chinese author Wang Xiaofang poses with his novel "The Civil Servant's Notebook" in Hong Kong. Wang is known as an author of "officialdom" fiction, a genre of Chinese literature dealing with...

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Mother Pursues her Son’s Killer in New Mystery Novel

‘Shards of an Angel’ explores the personal nature of grieving after a horrible loss Folsom, CA (PRWEB) November 07, 2012 Any parent knows that there is no more unimaginable pain than losing a child,...

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Atwood unleashes clever 'Worlds'

Margaret Atwood has long declared that she does not write science fiction. Despite recent novels Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood and such back-to-the-future fiction as The Handmaid's Tale,...

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The perfect gift for the grad student in your life, A Slow Cold Death tells...

The first work of adult fiction issued by independent Altadena publisher Bitingduck Press, Susy Gage's A Slow Cold Death gives a chilling insight into scientific competition that can lead to data...

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The Heroine in the Drawing Room

What is your opinion of domestic fiction? My college literature professors always dismissed it as piffle, even Jane Austen! —P.J., Madison, Wis. Several years ago, the editors of an anthology of new...

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The White Lie by Andrea Gillies – review

A moving page-turner about the unreliability of personal history The writer Andrea Gillies. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod...

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Alice Hoffman weaves ancient history into mesmerizing tale

'The Dovekeepers' A novel by Alice Hoffman Published by Scribner, 504 pages, $27 On sale Tuesday If a world of strong women and their complex relationships with one another doesn't draw you into Alice...

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Potomac, MD Author Delivers a Gripping, Multicultural Romance in New Novel...

Endless Life portrays a woman's search for love and meaning across two continents in an increasingly complex world. Potomac, MD (PRWEB) December 10, 2012 Felsen Press announces the release of a...

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Seeking meaning in a mother's loss

Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism has been part of our collective consciousness. We now know that our quietly comfortable world can be suddenly and spectacularly blown apart, leaving the survivors...

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Fall arts | Tales of the city lead the way in fiction

 There’s nothing like a big, kinetic novel of urban life to capture the perpetual striving and complexity of humankind. Alert to and intrigued by the simmer, thrill and trauma of many-voiced tales...

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