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Her hair was a declaration, not an admission.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
The many strands of the perplexing plot were resolved either by ‘Fate’, the fulfilment of a gypsy’s curse or a thunderstorm.
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their cackles and perfumes blurred together in a garish bouquet that I found at once enticing and stomach turning.
Patrick deWitt • The Sisters Brothers
works of art
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
‘Dorian Gray’.
Sarah Waters • Tipping The Velvet (VMC Designer Collection)

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Deanna Raybourn • A Perilous Undertaking
Grace, feeling at that moment she’d exchange an eternity of rest for a tube of lipstick, bit her lips to bring up the blood, and fell into desolation. It was her eighteenth birthday, and all she had at hand was a walk down by the Blackwater with her only two friends, and tea with her peculiar family. Other girls on days like these held parties to w
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
Women fill with fury at waste, eco-apocalypse and the pressure to be flawless in a lyrical and oblique short story collection