Catherine McNamara’s Love Stories for Hectic People reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: LOVE STORIES FOR HECTIC PEOPLE
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An intriguing and thought-provoking sentence opens the novel His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie and demands an undivided reader’s attention. Continue Reading Book Review: His Only ...
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; ...
In Night of the Long Goodbyes, Erik Martiny takes us into a dystopian near-future. Set in the mid-21st century, Britain is in the grip of hyperpopulist post-Brexit politics. ...
Read Litro’s interview with Guillermo Stitch. Lake of Urine is original and absorbing, a mad whirly-gig romp through the lives of the Wakeling family. A post-modern fairy tale told in ...
Guillermo Stitch is the author of the award-winning novel, Literature™, and the novel, Lake of Urine: A Love Story. Continue Reading Interview with Guillermo Stitch, author of ...
Set in the years following the Mexican Revolution, El Llano in Flames is a collection of stark and violent short stories translated by Stephen Beechinor. Continue Reading Book ...
Only a Lodger … And Hardly That. The title’s borrowed from the eighteenth-century writer and composer Charles Ignatius Sancho, who gained notoriety as the first British African eligible to vote ...
This is a story about love, but it is also about making choices. Savičević’s disjointed narrative is, at times, challenging, but it becomes evident that this is exactly the author’s ...
“No novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this” – Toni Morrison. Continue Reading Book Review: Corregidora, by Gayl Jones
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The diversity of voices across the collection reflects not only Chiew’s talent, but perhaps also the long span of years over which they were written. Continue Reading Book ...
But when the summer disappears, Sokcho empties of the commercial buzz; it loses the boost of transitory, touristy cash. Continue Reading Book Review: Winter in Sokcho, by Elisa ...
In the midst of the break-up, Ruth is charged with organising a hen party for her frenemy Alana, who within hours of Ruth’s split, announces her wedding. Continue ...
Best known for her food writing, in Map of Another Town the American writer M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a virtual tour of the French town of Aix-en-Provence. ...
Vesna Main’s latest novel, Good Day?, is a masterpiece of understatement and inquiry into intimacy, fidelity, memory, and the business of fiction itself Continue Reading Book Review: Good ...
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 ...
