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|author= Aldous Huxley
|title= Time Must Have A Stop
|rating= 3
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= Sometimes we start reading "authors" as opposed to specific books, because we feel we ''should''. So it was with me and Huxley. I seem to remember reading and actually enjoying the classic ''Brave New World'' and so felt compelled to explore more of the oeuvre.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178487034X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michel Houellebecq and Lorin Stein (translator)
|summary=Back in 1999, when ''The Hours'' won the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Cunningham set a precedent for depicting Woolf's later life and suicide. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Woolf in the film version of the novel; she is best remembered for wearing a prosthetic nose. Fast forward 15 years. In 2014–2015 alone, three major novels about Virginia Woolf have been published. That confluence, especially in a year that does not mark a significant anniversary, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolf's life and writings.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)
|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=If you pick up a copy of this book you realise how small it is. You'll know, of course, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call a pocket book, but here is the exception to prove the rule. It's wee. The story is on a hundred pages. The concision is partly down to it starting after the beginning, for we first meet Big and Small, two brothers, once they're stuck down a large well in the middle of a forest. Tasked with a family errand, they're trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flask, and even a desperate move cannot get either out. This is the story of the next three months in their existence, as they brave hunger, delirium, loss of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existence.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>
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