An entertaining commentary on where physical and virtual worlds collide, does Shukla’s second novel hit the bullseye of the great Here-and-Now dartboard? Continue Reading Book Review: Meatspace by ...
A new collection of short stories about Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian writers invites readers to discover the city behind the city – where anything goes. Continue Reading ...
Murder and intrigue grip London’s Polish community in this taut page-turner. Continue Reading Book Review: Death Can’t Take a Joke by Anya Lipska
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Lochlan Bloom finds that whilst S truly is a landmark in publishing, it sadly does not live up to its presentation with a worthwhile story. A stunning artefact, a so-so ...
Comprised of elegant stories about unsuccessful love, Unthology 4 is an enjoyable and often memorable collection from one of Britain’s most exciting independent publishers. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
David Gaffney has a wit and aesthetic that is uniquely his own and, in More Sawn-Off Tales he inter-weaves the everyday and the bizarre with finesse and aplomb. ...
The Gamal is a thrilling, disjointed tale of false-starts and whimpering endings, which succeeds to entertain whilst pretending not to care whether it does or not. Continue Reading ...
Multiples is nothing short of a grand experiment in storytelling; authorial rebellion; language, and how to read a book. Talking about it, let alone reviewing it, turns out to require ...
Guns, and their inevitable bullets, are splintered into the wood of the narrative from the first page; but so too is a probing of how anything ever begins, and how ...
Occasionally the outline of what might be called a traditional narrative is briefly glimpsed, or hinted at, poking out behind a phrase or historical reference… Continue Reading Book ...
If a book with literary ambition should both inform and entertain, as well as make you see the world in a different way, if only slightly, then Tarttelin has certainly ...
MaddAddam may appear to be a future-fiction romp of gene splicing and dystopia, but at its heart it is an extremely potent and powerful examination of humanity. Continue ...
Though Topol’s prose can be devoid of nuances The Devil’s Workshop is a powerful novel about the individual’s engagement with the demons from the past. Continue Reading Book ...
Whilst cartoonish at times, Tyler Keevil’s The Drive is an entertaining and humorous road trip through the American wastelands. Continue Reading Book Review: The Drive by Tyler Keevil
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Lazy Gramophone must be commended here for assembling in Time an anthology that at least attempts to marry shrewd accessibility with artsy conceptual considerations. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
The Syllabus of Errors by Ashley Stokes is an intelligent, melancholy short story collection that could have benefited from more tonal variety. Nonetheless, the stories that are here are first-rate. ...
The level of ambition along with the sheer number of characters in Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic could drive the reader straight to frantically sketching family trees, but where many multi-generational novels ...
And the Mountains Echoed is a worthy and emotional successor from the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner whilst managing to be even more emotionally heart-wrenching. ...
Johnson’s choice to make his characters speak in a casual vernacular, using American slang and speech patterns, makes this ambitious story easy to speed through and easy to enjoy; as ...
A raucous and engaging opening in Marjorie Celona’s debut novel, Y, gives way to moments of ordinary imagery and characterisation that, ultimately, suggests better things are to come. ...
