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|title=The Sixteenth of June

|author=Maya Lang

|rating=5

|genre=Literary Fiction

|summary=On June 16th, 1904, James Joyce had his first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle – an occasion he commemorated by choosing it as the one-day setting for his ''magnum opus'', ''Ulysses''; main character Leopold Bloom gives his name to the annual Joyce celebration that takes place around the world on June 16th.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1476745749</amazonuk>

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|title=After Before

|summary=Holly Golightly. Who doesn't know her? Whether in the pages of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', the short novel by Truman Capote or capture on film by Audrey Hepburn, she's an American icon. A young country girl becomes a New York socialite, trading on amusement value to make a life paid for by rich men who are titillated by her outrageous opinions and anecdotes. We ''want'' to know her. And the narrator ''wants'' to know her as much, if not more, than we do.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HX9UTSE</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Patrick Ness~~

~~|title=The Crane Wife~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Literary Fiction~~

~~|summary=~~

''The Crane Wife'' ticks all my boxes. It's by Patrick Ness who is one of my favourite writers of Young Adult fiction. It has a basis in myth and legend and still better in an ancient story new to me. It doesn't go on and on and Ariston for half a billion pages. Best of all, the author includes a shout-out for the brilliant Decemberists. I agree with Ness: this is a band you should look up. A heavy reading schedule meant I didn't get to it last year when it was first published but now it's out in paperback and here I am. I wasn't disappointed.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857868748</amazonuk>~~

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