This relationship — Mari, plain and studious; Eri, "gorgeous" and shallow — is our first intimation...

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Clocks, with their symbolic freight of time and plot, can serve as weapons with which the...

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I recently stumbled upon a scene which would have appealed to Brontë’s eye for cross-cultural interactions:...

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This is a broad ranging work as it manages to be poetic whilst drawing on current...

The characters are well-drawn, clear, as are locations, thought processes and motivations but all the time...

I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...

However, many contemporary English writers retain the essential nature of their culture. While they have, in...