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Recent Books

Hayley Scrivenor: Dirt Town (2022, Macmillan Publishers Limited) 4 stars

Dirt Town

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When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins her investigation, Esther’s tenacious best friend, …

Paolo Bacigalupi: Navola (2024, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 5 stars

Navola

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"You must be as sharp as a stilettotore’s dagger and as subtle as a fish beneath the waters. This is what it is to be Navolese, this is what it is to be di Regulai."

In Navola, a bustling city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, business is power, …