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Heather Harpham is a writer, teacher and theatre artist whose fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in a number of magazines in the UK. Her memoir, “Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After”, came out in 2017 and was selected for Barnes and Noble’s Discover Great New Writers series,Continue...

A young woman in her mid-20s decides to take a year to relax and rest. Without a valid reason, without a real liberating force, without a specific event, she falls into a “hibernation”. At first I was quite sceptical, whether this setting could be used to develop into a novelContinue...

Little Fires Everywhere is a novel by American writer Celeste Ng, published in 2017 and recreated in mini-series by Reese Witherspoon in 2020, making the world’s exclusive bestseller even more popular. The story takes place in 1998, when the house of one of the most successful and tidy families inContinue...

I hadn’t heard of Gail Honeyman’s book until now, and I seem to have missed out on it. Recently, “Eleanor Oliphant is perfectly fine”, her debut novel, which won in 2017 the English book award Costa in the category “First novel”, fell into my hands and I read it, mainlyContinue...