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Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto by Maile Chapman Our review : 'This book should be bottled and sold at the chemist's, the perfect antidote to austerity and job loss – reading it feels like a rest cure.' - Lucy Ellmann • Buy it from the Guardian bookshop Tweet Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz Our review : 'In this lovely book about human mistakes the sickeningly young, forbiddingly clever and vexingly wise American journalist Kathryn Schulz doesn't cite Aristotle, but he is a kindred spirit.' - Stuart Jeffries • Buy it from the Guardian bookshop Tweet Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed Our review : 'Mixing startling lyricism and sheer brutality, she plunges into the chattering, viscous heat and "hyena darkness" of Aden, 1935, in her portrayal of Jama, a young street boy ... His sufferings are too relentless and dehumanising to be called mere hardship – this is a significant, affecting book of the dispossessed.' - Catherine Taylor • Buy it from the Guardian bookshop Tweet Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman Our review : 'It's clear from this compelling debut that Beauman can perform the complicated paradoxical trick required of the best 21st-century realist novelists: to take an old and predictable structure and allow it to produce new and unpredictable connections.' - Scarlett Thomas • Buy it from the Guardian bookshop Tweet Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virgina Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris Our review : 'In this brilliant book ... Alexandra Harris sets out to show that English culture between the wars contained another strand, one she calls romantic modernism. Whereas high modernism wanted to lay waste to the material past in order to re-fashion it upon rational lines, romantic modernists had a soft spot for what had gone before.' - Kathryn Hughes • Buy it from the Guardian bookshop Tweet

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