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Authors - A:

• ABANI, Chris: Becoming Abigail (B+)
• ABATZOGLOU, Petros: What does Mrs. Freeman Want ? (B)
• ABDOLAH, Kader: My Father's Notebook (B+)
• ABDUL-WALI, Mohammad: They Die Strangers (B+)
• ABE Kobo: The Face of Another (B+)
• ABISH, Walter:
  • Alphabetical Africa (A-)
  • Double Vision (B+)
  • 99: The New Meaning (C)
• ABSE, Dannie: The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas (B+)
• ACHEBE, Chinua:
  • Home and Exile (B)
  • Morning Yet on Creation Day (B)
  • See also: Conversations with Chinua Achebe (B)
• ACKROYD, Peter:
  • Chaucer (B-)
  • The Clerkenwell Tales (B)
  • Milton in America (A)
  • The Plato Papers (A-)
• ACOCELLA, Joan: Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (B+)
• ADAIR, Gilbert:
  • [The Act of Roger Murgatroyd]
  • [Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires]
  • A Closed Book (B+)
  • The Death of the Author (A)
  • The Holy Innocents (B+)
  • [The Key of the Tower]
  • Love and Death on Long Island (A-)
  • The Real Tadzio (B+)
• ADIGA, Aravind: The White Tiger (B-)
• ADKINS, Lesley and Roy: The Keys of Egypt (B)
• ADOLPHSEN, Peter: Brummstein (B+)
• AGNON, S.Y.: To this Day (B)
• AGUALUSA, José Eduardo: The Book of Chameleons (B+)
• AIDOO, Ama Ata:
  • Anowa (B)
  • The Dilemma of a Ghost (B-)
  • Our Sister Killjoy (B+)
• AIRA, César:
  • An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (B+)
  • How I became a Nun (A-)
  • Varamo (A-)
• AKASAKA Mari: Vibrator (B)
• AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke:
  • Cogwheels (B+)
  • A Fool's Life (B+)
  • Hell Screen (B+)
  • Kappa (B+)
  • Mandarins (B+)
  • Rashomon (B+)
• ALAIDY, Ahmed: Being Abbas el Abd (B+)
• ALAIN-FOURNIER: The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (A-)
• ALBAHARI, David:
  • Bait (A-)
  • Götz and Meyer (A-)
  • [Pijavice]
  • [Snow Man]
  • Tsing (B+)
  • Words are something else (A-)
• ALBEE, Edward: Lolita (C)
• ALBERT, Hans: Briefwechsel (with Paul Feyerabend) (B)
• ALBERT-BIROT, Pierre: The First Book of Grabinoulor (B)
• AL-E AHMAD, Jalal:
  • By the Pen (B+)
  • The School Principal (B+)
• ALEAS, Richard: Little Girl Lost (B)
• ALEXIEVICH, Svetlana: Voices from Chernobyl (B)
• ALI, Idris: Poor (B)
• ALLEG, Henri: The Question (B+)
• ALMEIDA, Germano: The Last Will and Testament of Sr. da Silva Araújo (B+)
• Al-MOHAIMEED, Yousef: Wolves of the Crescent Moon (B+)
• ALSANEA, Rajaa: Girls of Riyadh (B)
• ALTERMAN, Eric: What Liberal Media ? (B+)
• ALUKO, T.M.:
  • Chief the Honourable Minister (B)
  • Conduct Unbecoming (B)
  • One Man, One Matchet (B+)
• AMETTE, Jacques-Pierre: Brecht's Mistress (B+)
• AMIS, Martin:
  • Experience (B+)
  • Heavy Water (B-)
  • House of Meetings (B)
  • Koba the Dread (B-)
  • Night Train (B-)
  • The Second Plane (C)
  • The War against Cliché (A-)
  • Yellow Dog (C+)
• AMMON, Theodore G. (ed.): Conversations With William H. Gass (B)
• ANDRUKHOVYCH, Yuri:
  • Дванадцять обручів (B)
  • Московіада (B+)
  • Perverzion (B+)
  • Recreations (B)
• ANTOON, Sinan: I'jaam (B+)
• APPELFELD, Aharon: The Story of a Life (A-)
• ARMAH, Ayi Kwei:
  • The Healers (A-)
  • Two Thousand Seasons (B+)
  • See also: Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast (B-), Oge ODEGE
  • See also: The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah (B), Robert FRASER
• ARMSTRONG, Karen: A Short History of Myth (B-)
• ARNOTT, Jake: The Long Firm (C+)
• ARREOLA, Juan José: Confabulario (B)
• ASHBERY, John: Other Traditions (B+)
• ASHER, Marty: The Boomer (B-)
• ASSCHER, Maarten: Julia en het balkon (B+)
• al-ASWANY, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building (B+)
• ATHILL, Diana: Stet (B+)
• ATKINS, Marc: Liquid City (with Iain Sinclair) (A-)
• ATKINSON, Kate: Case Histories (A-)
• ATTLEE, James: Isolarion (B)
• ATWOOD, Margaret: The Penelopiad (B)
• AUBURN, David: Proof (B)
• AUDEGUY, Stéphane: The Theory of Clouds (B+)
• AUGUSTO, Edyr: Hornets' Nest (B)
• MARCUS AURELIUS: Meditations (A-)
• AW, Tash: The Harmony Silk Factory (B+)
• AXELROD, George: Blackmailer (B)
• AYCKBOURN, Alan:
  • Comic Potential (A-)
  • Communicating Doors (A-)
  • Damsels in Distress (B+):
    • GamePlan (B+)
    • FlatSpin (B)
    • RolePlay (B+)
  • Garden (B)
  • Henceforward ... (A-)
  • House (B+)
  • Intimate Exchanges (B+)
  • Things We Do for Love (B)
  • See also Ian Watson's Conversations with Ayckbourn
• AYLETT, Steve:
  • See the complete review's Steve Aylett page
  • Atom (B)
  • Bigot Hall (B)
  • The Crime Studio (A-)
  • The Inflatable Volunteer (B)
  • Lint (B)
  • Only an Alligator (B)
  • Shamanspace (B)
  • Slaughtermatic (B)
  • Toxicology (B)
  • The Velocity Gospel (B)
• AZAM ZANGANEH, Lila (ed.): My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes (B)

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