Shalom Auslander’s Mother for Dinner reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: MOTHER FOR DINNER
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Jan Swafford’s Johannes Brahms: A Biography reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: JOHANNES BRAHMS
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The Lamplighters begins with a classic locked room mystery, inspired by a real-life event in the Outer Hebrides in 1900, but the mystery is just the starting point for this ...
The Dead Are Arising won a National Book Award in the US last year, and it is certainly a monumental act of biographical reconstruction. Perhaps its monumental status is part ...
‘The Aosawa Murders’ is a joy to read. It is cleverly paced and constructed so that each new chapter brings more fragments and clues for us to stitch together, to ...
There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else. Continue Reading Book Review: Astral ...
Diaz’s poems display mesmerising images that celebrate the personal and global resilience of marginalised populations who resist and exist by cutting out a space for themselves in an occupied land; ...
An award that summarises what her life has been all about, the points of no return and the choices made along the way. Continue Reading Book Review: The ...
In this collection North has created incisively told anecdotes filled with a sense of anticipation, of something struggling to rise to the surface Continue Reading Book Review: ...
This Paradise offers an incredibly diverse range of topics. They are original, current, entertaining, and relevant. Continue Reading Book Review: This Paradise, by Ruby Cowling
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With over thirty contributions from as many writers, Common People shines a light on the huge diversity of people in the United Kingdom and celebrates this richness loudly. ...
Sparkes and Hilaire have divided in two the work of unearthing and voicing by location, with Sparkes taking North and Hilaire the South of London, demarcated by the river that ...
In “The Choke” characters are trapped by circumstances, doomed to repeat the mistakes of previous generations, as they bid to break free from a cycle of poverty, addiction and violence. ...
A brilliant and troubling portrait of female sex addiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby Continue Reading Book Review: Adèle, by Leïla Slimani
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In her collection of essays, At Home in the New World, Maria Terrone explores the world through the lens of an Italian-American New Yorker. This is a fascinating collection of ...
A stylistically complex novel, Stubborn Archivist blends prose poetry and disjointed narratives, the result of which is a novel with a sense of urgency. Continue Reading Book ...
So my big question when starting the book was “How is this going to work?” Continue Reading Book Review: Bottled Goods, by Sophie van Llewyn
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Food is a byword for class, loss, happiness, and a minefield of potential gaffes for the culturally uninitiated. Continue Reading Book Review: Table Manners, by Susmita Bhattacharya
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When you expect The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually to become a whodunnit it morphs more into a mystery and almost becomes a ghost story, but don’t let me give ...
The backdrops are real and effectively drawn but it is in charting the contours of the human condition that McNamara succeeds with skilful interpretation. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
