Set in a crumbling post-WW2 London, A Small Dark Quiet by Miranda Gold is a book about loss, a delicate, haunting meditation on a generation both engulfed and shattered by ...
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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Constellations is a collection of raw, beautifully charged, wide-ranging essays about living in an imperfect body, specifically a female body in Ireland, where historically women have been denied their right ...
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. ...
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: ...
I cannot say, hand on heart, that every single story was for me, but I can say I was never bored, never tempted to put the book down and come ...
All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression. Continue Reading Book Review: We Were Strangers, ...
The author who would become known internationally as Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 in northern Ukraine, a region home to a significant community of ethnic Poles. Continue ...
Just a little over halfway through Erik Martiny’s debut novel, the protagonist-narrator, Olaf Montcocq, deep in the throes of adolescent literary self-emergence, explains how he welcomed the prospect of being ...
In this book Gordon takes five women writers who battled against the social norms and takes us behind the characters they created Continue Reading Book Review: Outsiders: Five ...
What Garcia offers is an unwaveringly bleak satire on Generation Y, capturing the slow souring of that age as its unstoppable idealism comes up against the unbudgeable drudgery that is ...
All the stories are of our era, this decade – social media, Amazon, portfolio purchase of residential apartments, extortionate rents, franchise coffee outlets, Sports Direct, Saint George’s Cross flags, parakeets ...
