October 30, 2015 Us by David Nicholls Paperback review by Laura Marriott Us is David Nicholls’ fourth novel and the follow up to 2009’s surprise hit One Day. Nicholls is an award winning…
October 22, 2015 Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell Reviewed by David Harris I’d been eagerly waiting for this book. Cornell has recently published two volumes in an urban fantasy series, The Shadow Police,…
October 15, 2015 An Interview with Joanne Limburg By Victoria What I absolutely loved about A Want of Kindness was the voice you’ve managed to create. It was so brilliantly of the…
October 15, 2015 A Want of Kindness by Joanne Limburg Reviewed by Victoria Finally! A historical novelist whose wit and insight and glorious prose might threaten to topple Hilary Mantel from her throne. If…
October 15, 2015 Thirteen Guests by J Jefferson Farjeon Reviewed by Harriet Every station has its special voice. Some are of grit. Some are of sand. Some are of milk cans. Some are…
October 15, 2015 Worktown by David Hall Reviewed by Harriet The Astonishing Story of the Project that Launched Mass-Observation So screams the cover of this book. I’m always a bit wary…
October 15, 2015 Moving by Jenny Eclair Reviewed by Laura Marriott Moving is the latest literary offering from Jenny Eclair. It is the fourth novel from the comedian, who has published three…
October 13, 2015 Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson Reviewed by Simon This is the third Shiny New Books issue in which I’ve had the privilege of writing about Shirley Jackson’s works –…
October 8, 2015 Murder on Sea by Julie Wassmer Reviewed by Victoria Earlier this year I read the first in the Whitstable Pearl series by Julie Wassmer and enjoyed it. It featured an…
October 8, 2015 Belonging by Umi Sinha Reviewed by Victoria Not only was this novel one of the most gripping, engrossing, heart-in-mouth novels I’ve read in 2015, it wins hands-down the…
October 8, 2015 The Living and the Dead in Winsford by Håkan Nesser Translated by Laurie Thompson Reviewed by Gill Davies Håkan Nesser is a successful, award-winning Swedish crime writer best known for the Van Veeteren series of…
October 8, 2015 Keel Songs – A short story by Angela Young Natalie’s Diary: Fife, Scotland: February 8th Duncan asked me to sing to him this afternoon. I was struggling to keep our little dinghy on…
October 8, 2015 The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury Reviewed by Annabel Tom Drury is the author of a trio of exquisite observational dramas following the everyday life of the inhabitants of Grouse…
October 8, 2015 A Game for all the Family by Sophie Hannah Reviewed by Harriet My name is Justine Merrison and I do Nothing. With a capital N. Not a single thing. When I tell people…
October 8, 2015 Kauthar by Meike Ziervogel Reviewed by Annabel Many of you will recognise Meike Ziervogel as the founder of Peirene Press; we’ve reviewed several of their novella length books…
October 7, 2015 The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Translated by John Cullen Reviewed by Victoria In a bar in Oran, Algeria, a lone man sits drinking. He draws his companion – the…
October 6, 2015 The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken Reviewed by Annabel In this review, I could just make a list of the all the great noir novels and movies and their authors…
October 6, 2015 Till Kingdom Come by Andrej Nikolaidis Translated from the Montenegrin by Will Firth Reviewed by Chelsea McGill Strange things are happening to our narrator, a local newspaper reporter living in…
October 5, 2015 Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie Reviewed by Annabel Before you ask – yes, that does make 1001 nights. Rushdie’s new novel may have its roots in the ancient tales but…
October 2, 2015 Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick De Witt Reviewed by Susan Osborne Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt’s third novel. His second, The Sisters Brothers, was a darkly comic western set in mid-nineteenth century Oregon…
