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SAMANTHA SHANNON The Bone Season. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson

October 3, 2013

The Bone Season offers a parallel future of clairvoyants and alien races in a complex and vibrant thriller. This is …

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SUZANNE JOINSON A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar. Reviewed by Kylie Mason

September 10, 2012

The unlikely story of 1920s lady missionaries in exotic Kashgar entwines with the tale of a modern woman in contemporary …

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