Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (a JK Rowling pen name) 'She stopped moving before they had finished with her. She'd have screamed, of course, she couldn't have failed to scream, but there was no soundtrack.' The mystery at the centre of Troubled Blood, the latest novel by the creator of Harry Potter, is a forty-year-old …
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Unchosen Love by Ursula K LeGuin This, the third story in the collection The Birthday of the World, is set on a planet called O, where ideas of sex and family are even more bizarre than on Gethen or Seggri. [See my two previous posts, here and here.] 'When I explained our concept of incest …
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