August 23, 2016 Black Water by Louise Doughty Reviewed by Victoria Louise Doughty is probably best known for her novel, Apple Tree Yard, which was a huge hit back in 2013. It told…
August 18, 2016 The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain Reviewed by Harriet ‘You have to be like Switzerland,’ Gustav’s mother tells him. ‘You have to hold yourself together and be courageous, stay separate…
August 18, 2016 The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson Reviewed by Harriet Is there no end to these amazing novelists who appeared to have sunk without trace and are now being revived for…
August 11, 2016 This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell Reviewed by Harriet World is crazier and more of it than we think / Incorrigibly plural. The epigraph to this novel is by Louis…
August 4, 2016 To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey Reviewed by Annabel Eowyn Ivey’s debut novel, The Snow Child, was my favourite book of 2012; I awaited her second with great anticipation. To the…
