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Skyfall

The daughter of a diplomat finds herself at the heart of wartime espionage in Simon Mawer’s ‘The Girl Who Fell From the Sky’. Simon Schama reviews

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Flying Scotsman

A rich teenage boy drops out of school to become an apprentice train driver on a declining railroad in Alan Warner’s ‘The Deadman’s Pedal’

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Epic recast

China Miéville’s gripping yarn ‘Railsea’ reimagines ‘Moby Dick’ as a steampunk fantasy set in a realm crisscrossed by countless rail tracks

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Reading between the lines

Nell Leyshon’s ‘The Colour of Milk’ is a disturbing statement on the social constraints faced by 19th-century women

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Grand masquerade

A writer in his sixties recalls his struggle with bisexuality, success as a novelist and belated turn to activism in John Irving’s ‘In One Person’

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Deadly passion

Rajesh Parameswaran’s offbeat short stories in ‘I am an Executioner’ show a mastery of perspective and voice that hints at greater things to come

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Soul-searching

A woman’s quest to recover family, history and truth in Meaghan Delahunt’s ‘To the Island’ yields a cathartic, bittersweet novel

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Sacred defiance

Amitav Ghosh’s ‘River of Smoke’ is both a fluent sequel and an engrossing standalone novel from his 19th-century Opium war trilogy

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Web of minds

A machine for editing memories is exposed to electromagnetic pulse, resulting in a national security nightmare in Robert J Sawyer’s ‘Triggers’

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Deathly comedy

Chuck Wendig’s ‘Blackbirds’ is a splendidly profane slice of urban fantasy with slick one-liners and laugh-out-loud descriptions

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