Which new books are worth your time? Our critics decide
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- ▪Our critics deliver their verdicts on 10 new releases so you know whether they’re books to buy, borrow or skip.Fiction Photo: Orlando by Virginia Woolf, adapted by Susanne Kuhlendahl (Helvetiq, $50)I’ve kept only a ripple from the huge tsun
- ▪This graphic novel, based on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, is one of the keepers.
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