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Neale Lucas
Oct 11, 20194 min read
THE HOARDER.
I’m guessing, no, surmising, that readers who are going to read this book know what hoarding is, and the horrible, debilitating grip it...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 6, 20194 min read
THINGS IN JARS.
Sir Edmund Berwick is a collector. A collector of what exactly? Well, he has a keen interest in the abnormal. The mutated, the grotesque,...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 3, 20195 min read
HIMSELF.
The novel opens with a prologue in which a man is violently attacking a woman while their son looks on. Love once existed between these...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 29, 20194 min read
THE MINOTAUR'S SON & other wild tales.
The Minotaur’s Son & other wild tales is a collection of short quirky stories. Hmmm, perhaps “quirky” is an understatement, or perhaps...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 22, 20193 min read
GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER.
The novel opens with Amma just about to open her play, “The Last Amazon of Dahomy”, at the National Theatre. She reminisces about her...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 19, 20195 min read
COLOMBIANO.
When the Guerrilla execute Pedro’s father in front of him, and state that nobody be allowed to move the body, such is the power and fear...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 15, 20193 min read
THE TESTAMENTS.
At the opening of The Testaments, a statue is unveiled. This is a statue of the infamous, puppet-master, Aunt Lydia. Readers of The...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 9, 20193 min read
THE NICKEL BOYS.
The Nickel Academy was a malignant institution. The unmarked burial ground where forty-three bodies are found was discovered by chance. A...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 4, 20194 min read
THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING.
Saul Adler is more shocked than bewildered when his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau, not only flatly turns down his marriage proposal, but...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 31, 20195 min read
THE HANDMAID'S TALE.
Atwood’s classic is set in a distant future. How distant, we are not told, but it is a dystopia. It is set in a future where America is...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 25, 20193 min read
LANNY.
I have yet to read Max Porter’s debut novel, but if it is anything like this, his second, then it won’t be long before I get stuck into...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 20, 20193 min read
NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER.
Maurice and Charlie are both Irish, they are both in their fifties, and they are both dressed in cheap suits waiting at the Spanish port...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 18, 20194 min read
10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE. Leila knows she is dead. Not from the fact that her body is lying in a waste bin but from the facts...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 13, 20192 min read
THE WALL.
The first thing we learn about the wall is that it is cold. Not just your everyday run of the mill cold. The cold that makes you wish you...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 20, 20194 min read
HOUSE OF NAMES.
A few books ago I read The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth which is a retelling of Iphigenia in Aulis. It tells of the sacrifice of...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 14, 20193 min read
THE RED NOTEBOOK.
Let me just start by saying, and don’t ask me why, but if a book has a bookshop in it, then I nearly always like it. Laure realises how...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 13, 20194 min read
EYRIE.
Tom Keely’s life, like a skein of wool, is slowly starting to unravel. He has lost his wife, his job, he no longer answers emails or...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 9, 20195 min read
THE SONGS OF THE KINGS.
The Songs of the Kings is a more realistic and political retelling of the Greek tragedy, Iphigenia in Aulis. I have never read this play...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 5, 20192 min read
FLED.
With the death of her Father and the King’s pernicious taxes forcing her family into penury, Jenny has little choice but to turn to a...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 24, 20193 min read
SPRING.
Ali Smith is in deep trouble. How in the world is she going to top this with the next instalment of her Season’s Quartet? This is easily...
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