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Children's book reviews round-up. Published: AM. Book of the day. A young scientist follows her discredited mentor to a university for cancelled academics in this dark, complex debut about the culture wars. The Gilead author explores the first book of the Bible and finds it full of meaning — even hope — for today. Angie Kim lives up to her award-winning debut with her gripping second novel, Alice Winn stuns with a powerful first world war love story, and first-hand insights into loneliness. Published: PM.

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The Guardian Review section, home of its books coverage, has closed a year after a shake-up of the Saturday edition was announced. In a After nearly two decades and close to a thousand issues, tomorrow sees the last Guardian Review. And for giving me and my books a platform. I like many others are very sad to see it go. The Guardian will package its Review into a new Saturday magazine as well developing a planned refresh of its online coverage. Topics Children's. Bookshop Heroes. The British Book Awards. The YA Book prize. Publishing Calendar The Bookseller's Disability Issue. Books Previews. Author Interviews. Spotlight Features. Trade Interviews.

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In her follow-up to A Little Life, To Paradise Picador , Hanya Yanagihara split the critics with an epic if inconclusive saga of privilege and suffering in three alternative Americas: a genderqueered late 19th century, the Aids-blasted s, and a totalitarian future degraded by waves of pandemics. I was impressed by its vast canvas and portrayal of individual psychic damage set against seismic historical change. Also asking how we got here is Bournville by Jonathan Coe Viking. This one-of-a-kind book channels a spirit of righteous anger as well as lyrical freedom and joy. Based around a dangerous affair between a young Catholic woman and an older Protestant man, it combines gorgeously direct and acute prose with an incisive eye for social detail. It was a good year for unhappy families. Charlotte Mendelson skewers narcissistic control in The Exhibitionist Mantle , a darkly witty portrait of an artist on the slide who has spent decades squashing the life and creative energies out of his wife and children. Douglas Stuart followed Booker winner Shuggie Bain with a tough and tender story of family dysfunction and first love in Young Mungo Picador. Three hard-hitting debut novels shone out.

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Australian book reviews Weekly reviews of new Australian books from Guardian Australia. Published: 15 Jan Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh review — when a clinch is a crime. Explore more on these topics. Published: 4 Mar Angie Kim lives up to her award-winning debut with her gripping second novel, Alice Winn stuns with a powerful first world war love story, and first-hand insights into loneliness. A rerelease of the John Braine novel adaptation is no masterpiece but sits alongside films such as Lucky Jim and Billy Liar in its depiction of class conflict and young male frustration. A trip to Kythera for the Australian author and her mother results in this unsparing and intimate look at their intense and often unhappy dynamic. Prima Facie by Suzie Miller review — vital story stripped of its stage power. The Crying Room by Gretchen Shirm review — a beautiful study of mothers and daughters. But can we really know the bard?

Far be it from us to say you saw it here first. The class of includes a writer on an Emmy-winning Netflix show and a book publicist with a year career at the heart of the trade. From the turmoil of same-sex desire in Victorian England to the funny side of getting divorced in your 20s; from the trials of manhood in recession-hit Belfast to a genre-bending coming-of-age saga from Nigeria by way of Norwich: all are among the sundry riches to be found here.

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