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Ellen Willott Étoile is an Amazon Prime series about the New York and Paris ballet companies’ attempt to resuscitate the dying dance. To drag ballet into the modern day, the heads decide to swap star dancers, conductors, and choreographers for a season, all the while playing up to the media and sheepishly receiving funding from…
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Ellen Willott Tell Me Everything is a story about stories. It is a meandering contemplation of the way that people push blindly against the solipsism of their minds to find sparks of connection, briefly illuminating the unknown and each other. Tell Me Everything follows Bob Burgess, a lawyer, and Lucy Burton, a semi-famous author, in…
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Ellen Willott Octavia Butler is a name that keeps popping up, so I decided to read some for myself. I go in blind and choose the only Octavia Butler book in the library that’s not second or third in a series: Fledgling. Thus my choice is made. My first impression isn’t great. We seem to…
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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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