In its themes of loss and friendship and the insidious power of secrets, Kirsten Tranter’s perceptive second novel has much in common with her first, The Legacy. But Tranter has…
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In an orphanage housing children who have barely survived the Korean War, the lives of three people become intricately entangled in Chang-rae Lee’s novel The Surrendered. Hector Brennan, an American…
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In these two books, each of which takes a great seafarer and navigator as its subject, the particular interest of the authors is immediately apparent. Rob Mundle, sailor, journalist and…
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Weighing a hefty new compilation in the hand, a collector of sea stories has the same quickening of the pulse that assails the collector of china or the hoarder of…
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