Month: July 2025
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Ellen Willott Consider Phlebas is an action-packed, cynical space opera which follows small stories against the backdrop of a big war. The first book in Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, it is ambitious, thoughtful, and very funny. The book opens on the protagonist, Horza, drowning in a ritualistic torture chamber filling with the excrement of…
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Ellen Willott The Safekeep, the winner of the women’s fiction prize this year by Yael van der Wouden, is a dark gem of a book. It follows a privileged and angry young woman living alone in a house that will go to her brother when he marries, and her brother’s new girlfriend who breaks through…
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