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A Quiet Place

Seicho Matsumoto

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While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a...

Seven Hanged

Anthony Briggs and Leonid Andreyev

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'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one...

The Dark Flood Rises

Margaret Drabble

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'The best novel I've read in ages. Ferociously well written, and hugely entertaining' Sarah Waters...

Master of the Day of Judgment: A Novel

Leo Perutz

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Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his garden pavilion,...

House of Death (1982)

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Aka Death Screams Locals are celebrating the last night of carnival, such as newly in-love...

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May 24, 2020

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry

8.4

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Hamnet, about a son of a playwright, a twin of a sister, a saviour of a twin. This novel is beautifully written and pulls at the heartstrings. The writing creates atmosphere and suspense. It is well researched. I particularly like the chapter about the journey of the flea, not completely necessary but definitely added to the narrative. I know that this was a particularly good book as now o want to read Hamlet to see of there are any clues into Hamnet's life, or death, or Shakespeare's grief over the loss of his son. I was captured and engrossed from the beginning. I loved the mystery surrounding Agnes, however I feel that her character would have been more of a support of grief rather than to succumb to it. Definitely the best historic fiction that I've read this year. "To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.."