Flesh

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Fleshby

A stark, spare and brutally uncompromising dissection of human consciousness and the unnamable currents of life upon which it is mercilessly cast; David Szalay's modern masterpiece is a gripping, thrilling and hauntingly existential portrait of the physical experience of existence.

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Audition

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A searing, poignant exploration of human identity that cleverly unravels the various roles one must adopt and portray in order to function on the grand stage of life; Katie Kitamura‘s devilishly tricksy and thrilling experimental novel earns its audience with its sparse, page-turning prose, but some will certainly find frustration where others will find reward, and it’s a novel that will likely reveal more of its secrets upon revisitation.

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The Benefactors

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An ambitious, wildly polyphonic and emotionally complex novel that picks under the surface of trauma, parenthood and class; Wendy Erskine’s long-form debut is an undoubtedly assured, deftly focused and refreshingly honest portrait of a diverse, modern-day Belfast. However, it’s a novel that quietly entraps whilst reading yet fails to really linger once closed.

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What Happens at Night

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A unique, somewhat elusive, literary experience that's both hauntingly disorientating and emotionally tender; Peter Cameron's elusive and deftly unsettling novel is a strange, atmospheric and elegant unraveling of the primal intricacies of what it is to be human. A novel to revisit.

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