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The Compound by S.A. Bodeen Stuck in a modern fallout shelter for six years, Eli Yanakakis grieves for his twin brother and grandmother who were left outside the shelter during a nuclear attack. Eli has escaped death, but has become introverted, self-focused and standoffish as he waits for the 15-year time period to expire and
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne The book is based around a series of lies. A nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin in 1943 would be close to the age for entering the Hitler Youth (by this stage compulsory) and would have been educated at school about the ‘evils’ of Judaism. The
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There are many different styles of writing. This article could help you to decide on yours.
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So you think you have a really cool idea for your first novel but don’t know where to begin with the writing? Firstly, here’s a question. Is your novel going to be a mainstream novel or a category novel? A category novel fits into in a category – romance, science fiction, historical, crime saga, suspense, etc. A mainstream novel has a unique style and theme. They are novels that cannot be put into any category. They are difficult to write, and even more difficult to sell. They are the type of novel we call literary – the type that wins the Booker prize.
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The Passage by Justin Cronin The atmosphere has more the entertainment thriller vibe of Stephen King’s THE STAND than the bleak, literary vibe of Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD. And while it falls squarely into the post-apocalyptic genre, I loved that there were a couple of limited-reach dystopian societies thrown in for good measure. The central
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler The year is 2024 and 15 year old Lauren lives with her family in a walled community in LA County. Outside the walls, chaos rules. A water shortage has driven up prices on everything and people are desperate, stealing and killing just to survive. Even the police
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Sleepless by Charlie Huston Sleepless is a stark and startling novel in which nothing is sacred, a lucid dream of an awful future that threatens to impinge upon a present that is but a hair’s breadth from our own. Yet it is a league more powerful than other such doom-saying tales because its woeful suppositions are
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Black Hills by Dan Simmons “When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, “counts coup” on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general’s ghost enters him – and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life. Seamlessly weaving together the
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A Dark Matter by Peter Straub Though billed as something of a supernatural horror novel, A Dark Matter is much more of a psychological book. It’s a subdued novel in the fashion of Rashomon or Lost, using different character perspectives to gradually build a complete picture of events. But it’s also more than just a
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