LITERARY FICTION
Don DeLillo’s latest book conjures up a global catastrophe, albeit in the form of a devastating power cut in Manhattan two years from now.
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LITERARY FICTION By Stephanie Cross for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 1 October 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 1 October 2020 TRIO by William Boyd (Viking £18.99, 352 pp) TRIO by William Boyd (Viking £18.99, 352 pp) ‘If you want to know what people are like, actually like . . . read a novel.’ … Read more
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LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummings For The Daily Mail Published: 22:14 BST, 24 September 2020 | Updated: 22:14 BST, 24 September 2020 THE END OF THE DAY by Bill Clegg (Cape £14.99, 320 pp) THE END OF THE DAY by Bill Clegg (Cape £14.99, 320 pp) U.S. literary agent and former crack addict Bill Clegg … Read more
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LITERARY FICTION By Stephanie Cross for the Daily Mail Published: 10:27 BST, 11 September 2020 | Updated: 10:27 BST, 11 September 2020 THE HARPY by Megan Hunter (Picador £14.99, 256 pp) THE HARPY by Megan Hunter (Picador £14.99, 256 pp) The legendary harpy — taloned, winged and mercilessly vengeful — has long obsessed former Classics student … Read more
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LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 27 August 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 27 August 2020 THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS by Elena Ferrante (Europa £20, 300 pp) THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS by Elena Ferrante (Europa £20, 300 pp) Women don’t behave the way they ought in an … Read more
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Sophie Mackintosh’s unsettling, hypnotically eerie Booker-longlisted debut, The Water Cure, earned comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale, and the influence of Atwood’s classic is evident too.
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LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 6 August 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 6 August 2020 SISTERS by Daisy Johnson (Cape £14.99, 192 pp) SISTERS by Daisy Johnson (Cape £14.99, 192 pp) Daisy Johnson made headlines in 2018 for becoming the youngest writer, at 27, to be shortlisted for … Read more
LITERARY FICTION
In truth, the young Shuggie Bain occupies less space in this doorstopper debut than his Ma, the magnificently rendered Agnes.
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LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 23 July 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 23 July 2020 THE WILD LAUGHTER by Caoilinn Hughes (Oneworld £14.99, 208 pp) THE WILD LAUGHTER by Caoilinn Hughes (Oneworld £14.99, 208 pp) Set in Ireland after the collapse of the Celtic Tiger, this riotous dark … Read more
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LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:44 BST, 16 July 2020 | Updated: 22:44 BST, 16 July 2020 UTOPIA AVENUE by David Mitchell (Sceptre £20, 544 pp) UTOPIA AVENUE by David Mitchell (Sceptre £20, 544 pp) When not producing genre-busting novels that push up against the borders of realism and linear … Read more