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The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – a comedian’s chronicle of cancer

www.wakaticket.com – In this forthright account of his diagnosis and treatment, Steel wrings humour from the horror while honouring friends found and lost – and the significance of the NHS…
The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – a comedian’s chronicle of cancer
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The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war

www.wakaticket.com – A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain…
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney review – the women behind the woman

www.wakaticket.com – An erudite exploration of the female writers who influenced the celebrated 19th-century author brings to light neglected or forgotten but often captivating literature…
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney review – the women behind the woman
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Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home review – the wonder of the wireless revolution

www.wakaticket.com – Beaty Rubens’s study of the impact of early radio broadcasts in Britain is full of fascinating and often poignant detail…
Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home review – the wonder of the wireless revolution
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The Cafe With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – a cup of tea and a slice of life

www.wakaticket.com – A humble neighbourhood eatery in Vienna is the hub for a moving exploration of everyday urban existence in a new novel by the International Booker-shortlisted Austrian author…
The Cafe With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – a cup of tea and a slice of life
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Madeleine Watts: ‘Climate change should be in everyone’s writing right now’

www.wakaticket.com – In her second novel Elegy, Southwest, the Australian author writes into the climate crisis from a millennial perspective with a mixed sense of melancholy and hope…
Madeleine Watts: ‘Climate change should be in everyone’s writing right now’
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Soft Core by Brittany Newell review – highly strung strippers and cranky madams

www.wakaticket.com – The writer’s impressive second novel about an erotic dancer and newbie dominatrix straddles thriller and satire in its depiction of desire and longing…
Soft Core by Brittany Newell review – highly strung strippers and cranky madams
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Tom Cotton gingerly steps on Trump’s toes as he eviscerates TikTok in book

www.wakaticket.com – Republican seeks to shine light on major threat to US interests in Seven Things You Can’t Say About China – but may come to regret his moves as missteps…
Tom Cotton gingerly steps on Trump’s toes as he eviscerates TikTok in book
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Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – the kids aren’t all right

www.wakaticket.com – Against a backdrop of Thatcher and the Falklands, this sharp debut punctures the facade of life at a middle-England grammar school…
Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – the kids aren’t all right
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In brief: The Curious Life of the Cuckoo; The Dream Hotel; The Rising Down – review

www.wakaticket.com – An extensive hymn of praise to a springtime songbird; a gripping tale of a none-too-distant dystopia; and a history of the land and people of a small part of Sussex…
In brief: The Curious Life of the Cuckoo; The Dream Hotel; The Rising Down – review
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Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers

www.wakaticket.com – Elif Shafak, Sarah Perry, Jeffrey Boakye and others tell us which of the two totemic literary figures they favour…
Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers
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‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?

www.wakaticket.com – After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British literary giant, the Bard…
‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?
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Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – candid conversations with friends

www.wakaticket.com – The author’s first novel since 2013 – a stately sisterhood saga about a group of women whose lives haven’t turned out quite as planned – continually reframes our understanding of the quartet, practically offering four books for the price of one…
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – candid conversations with friends
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Colum McCann: ‘I like having my back against the wall’

www.wakaticket.com – The New York-based Irish author on being compelled to write about the big issues, his fear for friends in the Middle East and why Frankenstein is a metaphor for our times…
Colum McCann: ‘I like having my back against the wall’
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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – art v reality

www.wakaticket.com – The award-winning Australian’s deconstruction of the novel form is a rich pleasure…
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – art v reality
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The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – finding the funny side of living with cancer

www.wakaticket.com – The comedian reflects on mortality and the new course his life has now taken in this warm account of his cancer diagnosis and treatment …
The Leopard in My House by Mark Steel review – finding the funny side of living with cancer
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The best recent poetry – review roundup

www.wakaticket.com – New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae; The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha; Father’s Father’s Father by Dane Holt; Hardly War by Don Mee Choi; Minx by Karen Downs-Barton…
The best recent poetry – review roundup
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James by Percival Everett audiobook review – reimagining Huckleberry Finn

www.wakaticket.com – Dominic Hoffman narrates this satirical, Booker-nominated reworking of the children’s classic, written from the perspective of the enslaved Jim…
James by Percival Everett audiobook review – reimagining Huckleberry Finn
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Andrey Kurkov: ‘At 17, I got my hands on an illegal copy of The Gulag Archipelago’

www.wakaticket.com – The Ukrainian author on the joys of Jack London, cracking Hermann Hesse, and the soldier’s tale he can no longer reread…
Andrey Kurkov: ‘At 17, I got my hands on an illegal copy of The Gulag Archipelago’
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Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – teenage kicks

www.wakaticket.com – This 1980s-set debut novel takes place over 24 hours as the ripple effects of a teacher’s death are explored…
Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick review – teenage kicks
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