The way that online identity is changing our real world relationships is much discussed in the press but thus far has seen relatively little literary exploration. Andrew Blackman’s new novel ...
What is most shocking about The Shock of the Fall, Nathan Filer’s debut novel, is how it transforms the stereotypical conception of the novel into something new, saddening, breath-taking and, ...
Equal parts thrilling romp and grim, unflinching inspection of the contemporary immigrant experience, Albert Enrique’s short story collection Hypothermia is literature at its bravest. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
KS Silkwood’s King of the Jungle is an acerbic, energetic polemic of a novel, that revels in the hilarity and dilettantism of London’s art scene. Continue Reading Book ...
Within Sabine Gruber’s Roman Elegy Lochlan Bloom enjoys not only the sensations of life in the Italian capital but also the wonderful depiction of tensions that have existed between Germany ...
Idiopathy‘s hilarious prose, which is at turns terse and sharp and sprawling and circular, is reminiscent of David Foster Wallace at his most entrancing. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
Daniel Ellis reviews Matt Hill’s debut novel, The Folded Man, and finds much to savour in this dystopian tale of broken Britain. Continue Reading Novel: The Folded ...
One hesitates before calling A Tale for the Time Being a “novel of ideas”, which presupposes an imbalance toward themes over character, but it would be impossible to truly enjoy ...
Emma Cooper discusses the theme of transgression in one of her favourite books, MJ Hyland’s This Is How. Continue Reading Transgression and MJ Hyland’s ‘This Is How.’
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Global warming. Now, there’s a phrase that can divide opinion, stir up controversy and shine a spotlight on apathy It’s nearly impossible to discuss without resorting to well-trodden rhetorical ground ...
“Austen was worldlier, more intellectual and more professional than she was portrayed…” Andre van Loon on a fresh look at a hidden Jane Austen, revealed through royalty cheques, hats, jewellery, ...
Kate Brown on a story of life for a mother and her two daughters after they escape from a religious cult. Down on her luck in her teens, Amaranth marries ...
If The Alchemist or The Kite Runner haven’t satisfied your curiosity on the spiritual development of wandering boys, Manisha Jolie Amin’s début novel should be your next read. Dancing to ...
Amber Dermon’s debut novel is about the dark side of American private school life. In it, the 80s come to stand for a loss of innocence and a pervasive, if ...
Sarah Dodds on the large and complex cast of characters in John Lanchester’s “Capital”, his story of London life told through the inhabitants of one street. Continue Reading ...
The next Hunger Games? Dystopian-fiction fan Emily Ding reviews Hugh Howey’s Wool and chats with the Florida-based author about his journey from self-publishing sensation to Big-Six author, and how it ...
From his author picture, Simon Rich looks pretty happy (even if his mum probably made him wear a tie). Who wouldn’t be: three books, five screenplays, he used to work ...
Anyone who thinks that the crime novel is a boring, repetitive genre would do well to read Belinda Bauer’s Rubbernecker. Set in the coma ward of a Cardiff hospital, Rubbernecker ...
‘Do you ever wonder where your life is going? You are not alone,’ reads the logline on the front page of Afsaneh Knight’s second novel. Fresh from my own existential ...
The details of Fanny and Stella’s story will completely destroy all your presumptions about Victorian attitudes to sexuality. They and their circle of friends regularly dressed in elaborate drag and ...
