July 31, 2015 Uprooted by Naomi Novik Reviewed by Sakura Gooneratne Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. He doesn’t devour…
July 31, 2015 Remix by Non Pratt (YA) Reviewed by Jodie When I reviewed The Girl at Midnight I mentioned how great it was to read a story with a female friendship at its heart….
July 30, 2015 Things in my book I don’t want others to know, by Katarina Bivald “Don’t write about what you know, write about what you don’t want others to know.” I don’t know who originally said it, but it…
July 30, 2015 London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes Reviewed by Simon There are plenty of books about World War Two. There are even plenty of diaries, and some – like Nella Last’s or Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg’s –…
July 30, 2015 The Moor by William Atkins Reviewed by Christine Harding The moors of his childhood gave William Atkins a lifelong passion for moorlands, and in this book he travels through…
July 30, 2015 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Paperback review by Harriet Marie-Laure sits on her bed with the window open and travels her hands over her father’s model of the city….
July 30, 2015 The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald Translated by Alice Menzies Reviewed by Danielle Katarina Bivald’s The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is a ‘long cool sip of lemonade while lying in a…
July 29, 2015 The Honours by Tim Clare Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén It’s rare for any book, let alone a book marketed as literary fiction for adults, to open with a thirteen-year-old…
July 28, 2015 10:04 by Ben Lerner Paperback review by Susan Osborne Ben Lerner’s first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was much talked about on publication – 10:04 is his second and it’s narrated by…
July 28, 2015 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami Translated by Philip Gabriel Reviewed by Tony Malone Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the story of thirty-six-year-old train station designer…
July 28, 2015 The Accident Season by Moira Fowley-Doyle (YA) Reviewed by Bookgazing Every October, Cara’s family is beset by accidents big and small. The family all refer to this month as ‘the accident…
July 28, 2015 Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd Reviewed by Victoria Rear Window is my all-time favourite film and I must have watched it a dozen times or more. I never seem to…
July 27, 2015 The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge (YA) Reviewed by Ana Grilo “Have you read Frances Hardinge?” I’ve made several false starts with this review because I don’t know what to write….
July 24, 2015 The Infidel Stain by M J Carter Reviewed by Gill Davies The Infidel Stain is the second novel by M J Carter featuring the unusual detective duo of Jeremiah Blake and Captain…
July 24, 2015 The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera Reviewed by Simon Kundera’s latest – and, so it seems in discussion of the novel, potentially last – novel was published last year in…
July 23, 2015 Truly Criminal: A Crime Writers’ Association Anthology of True Crime, ed. Martin Edwards Reviewed by Lyn Baines True crime is a genre that fascinates many readers. Whether it’s a famous unsolved case such as Jack the Ripper…
July 23, 2015 Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn Reviewed by Victoria It was from a friend that Julia Blackburn first heard about John Craske, a Norfolk fisherman who became a painter and…
July 23, 2015 The IFFP Ceremony: A Report from the Shadow Jury Text by David Hebblethwaite The Florence Hall at the London headquarters of RIBA (the Royal Institute of British Architects) is a suitably grand space…
July 23, 2015 Glimpses of Long-Past Summers: Four Vintage Canadian Authors to Explore By Barb Scharf High summer in Canada brings long days of blue skies and sunshine, with blazing hot afternoons and late warm evenings and…
July 22, 2015 The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys Reviewed by Danielle Helen Humphreys writes some of the most lyrical prose I have come across. I’m slowly reading my way through her work,…
July 21, 2015 The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua Reviewed by Peter Hobson Punchycards! [1] If that word brings a smile of recognition to your lips then almost certainly you will not need…
July 21, 2015 Seacrow Island, and Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren Reviewed by Lory Widmer Hess If you’ve been lucky enough to spend summers as a child in a special place, you know that they…
July 21, 2015 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Believe the hype from America, where Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel was released in March: this is sure to be one…
July 21, 2015 The Dying Season by Martin Walker Reviewed by Linda Boa Ahh! Just look at that cover of a beautiful French country town in the sunset; small enough so everyone knows…
July 17, 2015 Jellyfish by Janice Galloway Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite Janice Galloway’s new short story collection takes as its starting point an observation by David Lodge: “Literature is mostly about…
