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...My make-up and skincare essentials are Dr Barbara Sturm’s Enzyme cleanser, Augustinus Bader’s The Cream, and Tata Harper’s eye serum, the one in the gold packaging....
...Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper shows a little more promise....
...They are, of course, the boy named Ignorance and the girl named Want. An ingenious take on an evergreen fable....
...Maria Crawford Science fiction Escape From Baghdad!...
...… We Live in Water, by Jess Walter, Penguin, RRP£8.99/Harper Perennial, RRP$14.99 Best known for his 2012 Beautiful Ruins , Walter centres these stories of down-at-heel American life around his home...
...This is crime fiction in the round, with hints of personal stories given as much narrative weight as clues to the killer....
...A fortyish redhead named Joan, given gusto by Kellie Overbey, has abandoned her life in upstate New York to make it as a stripper in New Orleans....
...Peruvian-American Alarcon was this year named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists....
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