DogFellow’s Ghost by Gavin Smith
HG Wells’s 1896 classic exploring ideas of intelligence and evolution has vivisectionist Dr Moreau attempting to create human beings from animals on a remote Pacific island, only for Moreau to fall victim to one of his own creations. Wells’s short novel is recast in Smith’s even shorter fable, which concentrates on [...]
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DogFellow’s Ghost by Gavin Smith - Review
The Believers by Zoë Heller - Review
Believers by Zoë Heller
Much fiction passes the time pleasantly enough, but when you turn the final page you’re not sure what you’re left with. You could have passed that time as agreeably with another book instead.
By contrast, The Believers is profoundly satisfying. No other novel would readily stand in its stead.
In her third novel, Zoë [...]
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