January 27, 2016 Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson Reviewed by Eleanor Franzén Are there ghosts at either end of life? It’s not uncommon, from time to time, to feel as though everything…
January 26, 2016 Spotlight on Publishers: Dean Street Press Q & A with Rupert Heath Will you tell me a little about the genesis of Dean Street Press? What prompted you to start the…
January 26, 2016 Cut Me In by Ed McBain Reviewed by Annabel Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter, although that wasn’t his original name either) was a prolific author, writing over eighty novels. These…
January 26, 2016 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Reviewed by Simon Slightly Foxed Editions – and I never tire of saying how beautiful they are – offer two different, wonderful things to…
January 21, 2016 The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien Reviewed by Karen Heenan-Davies When Edna O’Brien released her memoir Country Girl in 2012, there was intense speculation that this would be her swansong. She is after…
January 21, 2016 Dry Season by Gabriela Babnik Translated by Rawley Grau Reviewed by Chelsea McGill Ana, a 62-year-old graphic designer from Slovenia, has run away to a completely foreign place –…
January 21, 2016 American Housewife by Helen Ellis Reviewed by Linda Boa This slim collection of a dozen stories by American novelist and short story writer Helen Ellis is something of a…
January 21, 2016 Brooklyn: From Book to Film By Diana Cheng When Alex Garland was writing the screenplay for Never Let Me Go, the book author Kazuo Ishiguro told him: ‘Your only duty…
January 21, 2016 Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín Paperback review by Judith Wilson I read Brooklyn when it was originally published by Viking in 2009; it was the first novel I’d encountered by Irish-born…
January 20, 2016 In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward Paperback review by Gill Davies This is Sarah Ward’s first novel. She is a very experienced reader of the genre – she blogs at Crimepieces and reviews…
January 19, 2016 Dublin Seven by Frankie Gaffney Reviewed by Laura Marriott On a small crossroads near the bottom of Manor Street, one of the main through ways in Dublin 7, there…
January 19, 2016 Coffin Road by Peter May Reviewed by Linda Boa If you had killed someone you would remember. Wouldn’t you? In his latest novel, which it goes without saying will…
January 19, 2016 The Long Room by Francesca Kay Reviewed by Harriet A gripping story of obsession and spies set in eighties London. So says the blurb on the back of this truly…
January 19, 2016 The Social Brain: How Diversity Made the Modern Mind by Richard Crisp Reviewed by Anne Goodwin In the decades following the end of the Second World War, social psychology was preoccupied with an attempt to explain…
January 14, 2016 A Woman on the Edge of Time by Jeremy Gavron Reviewed by Victoria In 1965, shortly before Christmas, a young, ambitious mother of two children on the brink of publishing her first book of…
January 14, 2016 Death is a Welcome Guest by Louise Welsh Paperback review by Annabel Most trilogies are strictly sequential, one volume carrying on from another. Louise Welsh’s ‘Plague Times’ trilogy is slightly different (so…
January 14, 2016 Asking For It by Louise O’Neill Reviewed by Annabel O’Neill’s first novel, Only Ever Yours, published in 2014, won a host of prizes in her native Ireland. Aimed at older…
January 12, 2016 Performing King Lear by Jonathan Croall Reviewed by Harriet The role of King Lear is seen today as the ultimate challenge for the classical actor, the one that provides the…
