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Love for sale

An Australian psychological thriller leaves questions hanging. Suzy Hansen reviews ‘The Engagement’, by Chloe Hooper

Jan 25, 2013

Tempests and tragedies

A debut novel that borrows from Shakespeare. Hazel Sheffield reviews ‘The Starboard Seak’, by Amber Dermont

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This may hurt

Sadistic impulses surface in an extraordinary tale of 18th-century medicine. Suzi Feay reviews ‘The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones’, by Jack Wolf

Jan 25, 2013

Jazz requiem

A sensitive depiction of an artist in mourning. David Evans reviews ‘Intermission’, by Owen Martell

'Now doesn't that make a lot of sense' illustration by Lucy Davey

©Lucy Davey Jan 18, 2013

Nonsense and sensibility

Demanding, surreal poems of great lyric beauty. Ian Thomson reviews ‘Quick Question’, by John Ashbery

The Monday Review

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A look at what has led China astray in its rush to urbanise and what can be done to fix the problems

Small talk

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Tessa Hadley: Who is my perfect reader? Someone who makes excuses to be alone with a book

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‘The Last Quarter of the Moon’

Kelly Falconer reviews Chi Zijian’s tale of nomadic lives threatened by politics and change in China

The Lawgiver

Jan 18, 2013

Wholly Moses

A prophet is transported to Hollywood. Michael Prodger reviews ‘The Lawgiver’, by Herman Wouk

Past the Shallows

Jan 18, 2013

In brief

‘Past the Shallows’, by Favel Parrett; ‘70% Acrylic, 30% Wool’, by Viola Di Grado; ‘Capital’, by John Lanchester; ‘Resurrection Engines’, edited by Scott Harrison; ‘The Explorer’, by James Smythe

An illustration of Slaughterhouse Village by Toby Whitebread

©Toby Whitebread Jan 11, 2013

Appetite for corruption

A story of unbridled rapacity mirrors China’s path to modernisation. Krys Lee reviews ‘Pow!’, by Mo Yan

Jan 11, 2013

Promised land

One family’s struggle in 20th-century America. Maria Crawford reviews ‘The Twelve Tribes of Hattie’, by Ayana Mathis

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