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Month: April 2016

April 28, 2016

The Narrow Bed by Sophie Hannah

Reviewed by Harriet Nobody who’s a fan of Sophie Hannah’s crime fiction will be surprised to learn that The Narrow Bed features an inexplicable set of…

April 28, 2016

The High Mountains of Portugal by Jann Martel

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth There was going to be a novel about Portugal much earlier. In Life of Pi, the author within the story tells…

Prose Factory
April 28, 2016

The Prose Factory by D.J. Taylor

Reviewed by Liz Dexter This ambitious book aims to provide a history of what it calls ‘literary life’ in the 20th century, encompassing an examination…

April 26, 2016

Treats by Lara Williams

Reviewed by Karen Langley Despite there being fewer outlets for the format nowadays, the short story just keeps on going as a valid art…

April 26, 2016

The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes

Reviewed by Marina Sofia Julian Barnes is an avowed Francophile, as we have learnt from previous works such as Flaubert’s Parrot, Cross Channel and his book of…

April 26, 2016

Questions for Sharon Guskin

1. The Forgetting Time is your first novel, and we understand that previously your career has been in the film world. Have you always wanted to…

April 26, 2016

The Ex by Alafair Burke

Reviewed by Ann How well does one human being ever really know another? This is the question that criminal defence lawyer Olivia Randall is…

April 26, 2016

The Light of Day by Eric Ambler

Reviewed by Annabel Ambler was one of the great British thriller writers and his works are ripe for reappraisal. They had gradually become out…

April 26, 2016

Reading for Student Experiences

Written by Anna Hollingsworth Finite, enclosed spaces, power relationships, the discovery of independence, and the pursuit of knowledge: university as a backdrop offers perhaps…

April 25, 2016

The Story of Alice by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Reviewed by Simon There are few children’s literary characters who are as well known as Alice et al. From Alice bands to Mad Hatters,…

April 21, 2016

When We Were Alive by C.J. Fisher

Reviewed by Simon Anybody who keeps an eye on book news, or the stands in WH Smith at Christmastime, will probably have observed the…

April 21, 2016

The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

Reviewed by Harriet If I tell you that this book takes the concept of reincarnation as its central premise, will you stop reading straight…

April 21, 2016

The Ballroom by Anna Hope

Reviewed by Judith Wilson There’s an intriguing tension between the title of Anna Jones’s second novel, The Ballroom, and its setting: a bleak mental asylum…

April 21, 2016

At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

Reviewed by Harriet This is the fifth of Tracy Chevalier’s eight absorbing historical novels I’ve read, and in my view it’s the best so…

April 21, 2016

Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal

Translated by Jessica Moore Reviewed by Annabel It is easy to see why this novel (in this translation; Sam Taylor has translated it in…

April 20, 2016

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall

Reviewed by Peter Hobson This new book by world famous theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, subtitled “The astounding interconnectedness of the Universe”, gives the reader…

April 20, 2016

Make it Southeast Asian

By Sharlene Tan The part of the world that is known as Southeast Asia may include the fourth most populous nation in the world…

April 19, 2016

Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson

Reviewed by Rob Spence 2016 is clearly going to be the year of Shakespeare, though it seems rather gruesome to ‘celebrate’ the anniversary of…

April 19, 2016

Behind Closed Doors by Elizabeth Haynes

Reviewed by Gill Davies Behind Closed Doors is the second novel in Elizabeth Haynes’s new series featuring the Major Crime team in Briarstone. The first…

April 19, 2016

The Eds Discuss: Literary Festivals

As some of the big literary festivals kick off this year’s lit fest season, Annabel, Harriet, Simon and Victoria discuss them: The literary festival…

The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
April 19, 2016

The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage

Reviewed by Annabel This novel was published in 1967, the fifth of twelve novels by the former ranch hand, and commonly thought to be…

April 19, 2016

Murder at the Manor ed. Martin Edwards

Reviewed by Kirsty Gibson I’ve been reading my way through the British Library Crime Classics for some time now, so when Simon gave me…

April 14, 2016

Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujilla

Translated by Roland Glasser Reviewed by Terence Jagger TRAM 83: BY DAY AS BY NIGHT, ETERNAL IN ITS SPLENDOUR OF A PARADISE GOING TO…

Earth zola
April 14, 2016

Earth by Émile Zola

Translated by Brian Nelson and Julie Rose Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Regular readers of my blog might remember that I set myself the task…

April 14, 2016

Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett

Reviewed by Victoria Hoyle I was sold Shirley Barrett’s Rush Oh! entirely on the strength of a fellow blogger’s review. She made it sound…

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