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Category: Books
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Happy by Derren Brown is another book that I bought when It came out but took a long time to get around to actually reading. I read about a third of it back in 2016 before getting distracted by something else and putting it back on the shelf. It was only recently, during a particularly…
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In her memoir Hate Club, author Lucy Brown takes us back to 2016, and a Britain in turmoil. The Brexit referendum, racial tensions, fear of Islamist terrorism, concerns over immigration, and the increasing likelihood that Donald Trump would be successful in his bid for the White House all had Britons feeling uncertain about the future.…
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I picked this one up thanks to a New York Times recommendation, and it’s an assured debut for Irish author Aisling Rawle. It’s a tense psychological thriller set in a near-future world. The Compound is the most popular reality show on television. In it, ten young women and ten young men live in the titular desert compound, surrounded…
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One thing I imagine people who have grown up with BBC iPlayer, DVR or even VCR would find hard to understand about growing up in the 1970s is the notion that if you missed an episode of a TV series, you had missed it. End of story. The only way you would ever be able…
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