Negotiating With The Dead, by Margaret Atwood
In this edition of Shelf Indulgence, Margaret Murphy reviews Margaret Atwood’s Negotiating With The Dead.
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In this edition of Shelf Indulgence, Margaret Murphy reviews Margaret Atwood’s Negotiating With The Dead.
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Louisa May Alcott’s classic, Little Women, is revisited by Margaret Murphy in this Shelf Indulgence review.
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Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn, was for me the most outstanding crime & mystery debut of the last two decades.
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Straight Man, by Richard Russo is a telling satire of academic life, writing, and – dare I say it? – writers. It’s also irreverent, funny, and thought provoking. Recommended.
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Scrublands evokes vividly the devastation of a seemingly endless drought, the desperation of a dying town, and the destructiveness of journalists out for a story at any cost.
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One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’, Cannery Row is set in Monterey, California in the Great Depression era, but it’s far from depressing.
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Paul Simon: The Life provides astonishing insights into a complex song-writing process, as well as many instances of Simon’s integrity as a musician and as a man.
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Twelve Women Detectives is an eclectic selection of stories with female detectives as central characters. Terrific for reading groups!
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This weird and wonderful creation combines the wicked charm of Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter and the visceral shock of Tarantino’s work.
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With a roll call of film classics including Double Indemnity, Some Like it Hot, Ace in the Hole and Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder was destined to be listed as one of the Top 40 Greatest Directors of All Time. But by 1977, his star was on the wane. It is during this time that Jonathan Coe takes up the tale.
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