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Month: January 2015

January 31, 2015

The Eds Discuss: Book Groups

Love them or loathe them, we’ve all been in one! The editors discuss the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to…

January 30, 2015

The Happy Tree by Rosalind Murray

Reviewed by Simon Thomas Devotees of Persephone Books will know that the best thing about this reprint house is bringing to light authors whose…

January 30, 2015

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Reviewed by Susan Osborne Set in 1977, Everything I Never Told You is the story of a family whose oldest daughter disappears one night. A few…

January 30, 2015

Someone by Alice McDermott

Paperback review by Victoria Alice McDermott is one of those writers who make you wonder how on earth they do it. Every sentence in…

January 29, 2015

Playthings by Alex Pheby

Reviewed by Anne Goodwin “Nothing to be concerned about” Daniel Paul Schreber reassures himself in the opening paragraph of Alex Pheby’s second novel. Just…

Those Who Walk Away
January 29, 2015

Those Who Walk Away by Patricia Highsmith

Reviewed by Harriet. ‘The No.1 greatest crime writer’, proclaims The Times on the covers of Virago’s new reprints of some of Patricia Highsmith’s lesser…

January 29, 2015

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Reviewed by Simon Slightly Foxed Editions often introduce me to books I know nothing about – hidden gems waiting to be unearthed – and…

January 29, 2015

Where I’m Reading From by Tim Parks

Reviewed by Annabel Many of us who are booklovers enjoy nothing more than reading a book about books. I’m familiar with Tim Parks through…

January 29, 2015

The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead

Reviewed by Lory Widmer Hess No two readers can really read the same book. The nuances generated by our particular set of experiences, associations,…

January 29, 2015

Shiny New Author: An interview with Frances Vick

In the second of our series where we interview new authors, Annabel talks to Frances Vick, author of Chinaski. A. When did you first realise…

January 29, 2015

Spotlight on Publishers: Notting Hill Editions

An Interview with Notting Hill Editions Written by Victoria Best If you’ve ever seen a book by Notting Hill Editions, you’re not likely to…

January 29, 2015

Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming

Written by Victoria Best My abiding memory of Alan Cumming is from the Bond movie, Goldeneye, in which he plays his character of Machiavellian computer…

January 29, 2015

Merchant Adventurers by James Evans

Reviewed by Liz Dexter In the mid-1500s, three ships set off from London to seek a passage to the famed untold riches of the…

January 29, 2015

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Reviewed by Stefanie Hollmichel Oxford World Classics has produced a terrific reissue of Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves. There are helpful endnotes, biographical information, a…

January 29, 2015

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Reviewed by Rebecca Hussey Jesmyn Ward’s memoir Men We Reaped is a difficult book, but a necessary and compelling one. As Ward says in the book’s prologue,…

January 29, 2015

The Winter War by Philip Teir

Written by Victoria It feels like it’s been quite a while since I last read an engaging portrait of domestic drama from a male…

January 29, 2015

The Evolutionist: The Strange Tale of Alfred Russel Wallace by Avi Sirlin

Reviewed by Peter Hobson The Evolutionist is a novel which aims to bring an important scientist in the development of the early scientific theories of…

January 29, 2015

Black Sheep by Susan Hill

Paperback review by Simon Susan Hill is the master (or perhaps that should be mistress) of many genres. She is famous for crime novels,…

January 28, 2015

Privileged Children and The Bohemian Girl by Frances Vernon

Reviewed by Harriet Well, Faber Finds has done it again. In Issue 1 of SNB I reviewed some of their reprints of the brilliant…

January 28, 2015

Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin

Reviewed by Simon It is very apt that the publishing house that has just reprinted Tepper Isn’t Going Out, the quirky comic masterpiece by Calvin…

January 28, 2015

Miss Carter’s War by Sheila Hancock

Paperback review by Laura Marriott Miss Carter’s War opens in 1948, in smoky post war Britain, introducing us to the woman who is going to…

January 28, 2015

Pure Juliet by Stella Gibbons

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton I was aware that Vintage were publishing some newly discovered Stella Gibbons novels, but until Simon asked me to read Pure…

January 28, 2015

Biographical Notes: Frances Vernon

Written by Harriet The life of Frances Vernon, whose six novels have just been reprinted by Faber Finds, makes for sad reading. Born, as…

January 28, 2015

The American Lover by Rose Tremain

Written by Victoria Rose Tremain is one of those talented writers in whose hands you instantly feel safe. Here, the reader understands, there will…

January 27, 2015

Spy Out the Land by Jeremy Duns

Reviewed by Rob Spence Don’t read this book. Don’t, that is, unless you have read Jeremy Duns’s previous three Paul Dark spy thrillers, because…

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