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Armchair travel—or should we say beach chair?

From epic voyages to haunting folk tales, here are the highlights of an otherworldly year.

Review by Fiona Rintoul Books are so oversold these days that it is difficult not to see “mesmerising” on a cover and think, “mediocre”, not to learn that this is the one book you should read this year and resolve to pass. A blizzard of hard-to-live-up-to superlatives along the “luminous” and “tour de force” lines heralded the publication of The Absolute Book by New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox, and so it was with trepidation that I opened its pages. Therein lies a complex tale that veers between real-life concerns and the world of the Sidhe, Celtic fairy people re-envi...

Shreve Memorial celebrates National Library Week Samantha Bonnette Shreve Memorial Library encourages all community members to visit the library’s website to explore and access virtual services and programs during National Library Week April 4 through April 10. Shreve Memorial Library offers a wide array of online resources that are available from the comfort of home, including Hoopla, OverDrive, CreativeBug, LinkedIn Learning, and Flipster, as well as convenient reference help, curbside pickup service, diverse collections, and free computer use and Wi-Fi at the library. April 4-10 is Nati...

Daily Times * When Taryn Cornick is still a teenager, her older sister Beatrice is killed in a hit-and-run April 1, 2021 Elizabeth Knox is the recipient of a multitude of literary honours in her native New Zealand, with the kind of popular following that befits the luminous quality of her writing. That international success has thus far been denied her is something of a scandal, but with her latest work the tide could be about to turn. The Absolute Book has the feel of an instant classic, a work to rank alongside other modern masterpieces of fantasy such as Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materia...