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Voyager by Nona Fernandez review: Memory as an act of rebellion
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Voyager by Nona Fernandez review: Memory as an act of rebellion

Nona Fernandez’s clear-eyed memoir, Voyager, eschews sentimentality in the retelling of her mother’s life in Chile under the dictatorship of Pinochet

Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite: ‘Music can make dreams come true’
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Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite: ‘Music can make dreams come true’

Before Mogwai, Braithwaite was a music-obsessed teenager in East Kilbride, who dreamed of sharing a stage with The Cure. Then one day that dream came true

What Strange Paradise review: A nine-year-old refugee’s ‘upturned fairytale’
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What Strange Paradise review: A nine-year-old refugee’s ‘upturned fairytale’

A small boy is the sole survivor of a boat tragedy at sea when the refugees he is travelling with are lost. Omar El Akkad recounts his terrifying journey to the west, and the attitudes that have shaped his life ever since

Iain Sinclair on The Gold Machine: Drunken priests and fever dreams
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Iain Sinclair on The Gold Machine: Drunken priests and fever dreams

Solito by Javier Zamora review: A beguiling memoir, effortlessly evocative of time and place
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Solito by Javier Zamora review: A beguiling memoir, effortlessly evocative of time and place

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Jon Ransom’s letter to his 16-year-old self: ‘It’s about to get rough. There’s no way around it’
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Jon Ransom’s letter to his 16-year-old self: ‘It’s about to get rough. There’s no way around it’

Walking Back Home review: Ricky Ross is bracingly honest with the reader and himself
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Walking Back Home review: Ricky Ross is bracingly honest with the reader and himself