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About to Fall Apart by Ashley Hickson-Lovence: A hilarious meditation on writing and family
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Ghost Month by Simon Wroe: Odd, thoughtful inquiry into possibility of living alongside loss
By Phoebe Pascoe
The Ghost of the Mountains by Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi: What the snow leopard tells us about ourselves
By Declan O’Driscoll
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Roisin Kiberd: ‘Beauty is a very weighty subject ... it can be cruel and manipulative but it can also be art’
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The Castle by Jon Ronson: A great attempt to unpick modern masculinity in the digital age
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A Thought without Collision by Adrian Duncan: A sublime and fascinating exploration of how people teach and learn
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