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Month: March 2017

Above the Waterfall Ron Rash
March 30, 2017

Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash

Paperback review by Susan Osborne Ron Rash hails from the Appalachians and it’s there that he sets his award-winning novels with their smalltown mountain…

March 30, 2017

The Nix by Nathan Hill

Reviewed by Lucy Unwin No book could be simultaneously more timely and more timeless than this future classic. The Nix is fun, joyous, exciting…

claire fuller swimming lessons
March 28, 2017

Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

Review by Annabel I reviewed Claire Fuller’s debut novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, for Shiny upon its publication – I loved it and was…

The Longest Night by Otto de Kat
March 28, 2017

The Longest Night by Otto de Kat

Translated by Laura Watkinson Reviewed by Gill Davies Otto de Kat is the pseudonym of a Dutch writer (journalist, poet, translator and editor) whose…

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano
March 23, 2017

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano

Translated by John Brownjohn Reviewed by Annabel I’m very glad to have met the irrepressible Auntie Poldi! Our narrator, her beloved nephew, tells us…

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
March 23, 2017

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster From the title and the Montego Bay, Jamaica setting, you might be expecting a story line light enough to match…

March 21, 2017

She Died Young by Elizabeth Wilson

Paperback review by Gill Davies She Died Young was published in hardback last year and is now available in paperback. It is the fourth novel…

Memoirs of a Polar Bear byYoko Tawada
March 21, 2017

Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada

Translated by Susan Bernofsky Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is a rather engaging book, which on the surface is not entirely innocent of the…

March 16, 2017

Hit Makers by Derek Thompson

Review by Annabel I came to read this book immediately after devouring UK journalist and presenter Tim Harford’s recent Messy: How to Be Creative…

Irresistible: Why we Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching by Adam Alter
March 16, 2017

Irresistible: Why we Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching by Adam Alter

Reviewed by Liz Dexter Before: Phone on bedside table, checked for the time whenever I woke up and checked for emails / Facebook updates…

March 14, 2017

Questions for Martine McDonagh

Interview by Annabel Narcissim for Beginners is Martine McDonagh’s third novel, reviewed by Annabel here. Annabel: How did you find the whole Unbound experience? (see our…

March 14, 2017

Narcissism for Beginners by Marine McDonagh

Reviewed by Annabel    In the interest of full disclosure, Martine and I have never met, but we are Facebook friends after I reviewed her…

March 9, 2017

Mother of Darkness by Venetia Welby

Reviewed by Annabel Old Soho ain’t what it used to be. The former centre of London’s seedier side has been largely poshed up, gentrified…

In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant
March 7, 2017

In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant

Review by Annabel There are two types of historical fiction. Those which are set during a particular period with imagined protagonists which may feature…

March 7, 2017

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft

Review by Karen Langley Mention author H.P. Lovecraft to people and you’ll most likely get one of two reactions: either they’ll hail him as…

March 7, 2017

The Witchfinder’s Sister by Beth Underdown

Review by Alice Farrant The number of women my brother Matthew killed as far as I can reckon it, is one hundred and six….

Stay with Me by Adébáyọ̀ Ayọ̀bámi
March 2, 2017

Stay with Me by Adébáyọ̀ Ayọ̀bámi

Reviewed by Alice Farrant Akin’s father has died and Yejide is coming home. Set against a backdrop of political turmoil, Stay With Me is…

Sally Phipps Molly Keane
March 2, 2017

Molly Keane A Life by Sally Phipps

Review by Hayley Anderton From the moment I discovered Molly Keane it was love, not just for the quality of her writing, the unflattering…

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