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Neale Lucas
Dec 31, 20194 min read
ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS.
Ocean Vuong is a poet, and, if, as the reader, you did not know this upon opening the cover of this novel, you will quickly realise it....
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Neale Lucas
Dec 28, 20193 min read
NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
It is 1998 and Lillian still receives four or five letters a year from her friend Madison instead of texts on a phone. Lillian and...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 23, 20195 min read
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen: A Novel
It is September 1726 and Nicholas Fox’s convoy of Medical Curiosities is rolling into the village of Godalming as the sun rises. The...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 21, 20192 min read
SAUDADE
The definition of the word “saudade” is a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is characteristic of the Portuguese or...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 18, 20193 min read
MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM.
When Tina Hopgood writes a letter to Professor Glob, she is not expecting to receive a reply. She knows that he is probably dead as he...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 14, 20193 min read
THE HUMANS.
The Humans is about a race of aliens who find out that a human mathematician has made a breakthrough with a mathematical problem that...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 8, 20195 min read
THE MERCIES.
Norway 1617, the town of Vardo. Maren Bergensdatter and Diinna are just two of the women who have made their way through the slashing...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 4, 20195 min read
SACRED HUNGER.
In 1992 the Man Booker prize was shared for the first time. Now everybody remembers “The English Patient” but fewer remember the book...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 29, 20195 min read
THE STARLESS SEA.
Having just reread “The Night Circus” in preparation to reading this I was immediately excited that it contains that same sense of...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 19, 20194 min read
MISS ICELAND.
The novel opens in Iceland in 1942. Because of his love and Passion for volcanos the protagonist of this novel is named by her father...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 17, 20193 min read
BLOOD MERIDIAN.
The picture that McCarthy paints of the west in the Mid 19th century is almost as savage, brutal, and violent that you will probably ever...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 13, 20194 min read
THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTED.
Eliza Caine is terribly disappointed when Charles Dickens announces to the gathered crowd that he is going to read them a ghost story. It...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 7, 20194 min read
IN THE DREAM HOUSE.
Machado writes in the afterword for this novel, "In The Dream House is by no means meant to be a comprehensive account of contemporary...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 5, 20194 min read
THE WOLF AND THE WATCHMAN.
Stockholm, 1793. Mickel Cardell is awoken from a drunken stupor by two young street urchins. Apparently, they have found a dead body...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 30, 20194 min read
THE NIGHT CIRCUS.
You would expect a circus to be riotous with colour. The myriad of tents displaying if not all, then most of the colours of the rainbow,...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 27, 20194 min read
SAVING MISSY.
Missy opens her morning paper and immediately flips to the obituaries. David Bowie has died. “At my age, reading obituaries is a...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 25, 20194 min read
THE SILENT COMPANIONS.
Mrs Bainbridge is incarcerated in a mental asylum. Mrs Bainbridge has lost the ability to speak. Mrs Bainbridge is dangerous. When Dr...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 22, 20194 min read
THE BOOK OF ECHOES.
The novel opens with the spirit of a woman haunting the West India docks, in London. She remembers two hundred years back when the smell...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 18, 20194 min read
NORMA
The novel opens at Norma’s mother’s funeral. A man rather rudely introduces himself to Norma as Max Lambert and claims to have been one...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 16, 20194 min read
KINNARA
The first chapter is short, only two pages long, but these two pages are enough to convey to the reader, the brutality, the complete lack...
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