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The Foolishness of Book Jackets

Posted on October 11, 2014October 11, 2014 by Zoe Hinis

Bad cover design delegates books to the wrong sections, gives them the wrong or no readers and so often puts great books on sale tables, alone and unwanted and left to die next to untold numbers of Dan Brown books.

Review of Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Posted on June 14, 2014September 4, 2014 by Zoe Hinis

Never mind the beer ad guy – Lauren Beukes may be the most interesting author alive right now. Broken Monsters… Read more Review of Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Review of The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

Posted on October 6, 2013November 28, 2013 by Zoe Hinis

Usually a book can be allocated its genre within a moment of reading the blurb and glancing at the jacket. But then there’s The Shining Girls, which gleefully refuses to pick a genre box to sit in, and decides that it will timeshare in several.

Review of Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Zoe Hinis

We meet with Boer War-era psychics, half-springbok boys, inter-dimensional gatekeepers and a pirate queen armed with Uzis.

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