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Month: June 2017

White Tears Kunzru
June 29, 2017

White Tears by Hari Kunzru

Review by Annabel One thing you can say about Kunzru’s previous novels – they will always have interesting themes that connect with the zeitgeist…

handmaids tale tv tie in margaret atwood
June 29, 2017

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Reviewed by Ali First published in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale seemed to speak to the generation coming to political awareness in that decade. Back…

June 27, 2017

Popular: Why Being Liked is the Secret to Greater Success and Happiness by Mitch Prinstein

Reviewed by Liz Dexter Mitch Prinstein is an expert on popularity, but he uses lots of other people’s experiments as well as his own…

June 27, 2017

Letty Fox: Her Luck by Christina Stead

Reviewed by Karen Langley Australian-born Christina Stead led a lively and picaresque life, spending parts of her time in the USA, France, Spain and…

June 22, 2017

Letters From Klara and Other Stories by Tove Jansson

Translated by Thomas Teal Reviewed by Kate Gardner This penultimate collection of Finnish literary giant Jansson’s short stories has taken 26 years to be…

June 22, 2017

The Stella Prize and its 2017 Winner

By Isobel Blackthorn Could there ever be enough literary prizes to satisfy the ambition of authors? For a very small literary market, Australia has…

June 20, 2017

A conversation with Sally Rooney, author of Conversations With Friends

Interview by Lucy Unwin We caught up with Sally at the Hay Festival 2017 where she told us: The foursome at the centre of…

June 20, 2017

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

Reviewed by Lucy Unwin That the Bechdel Test for movies even exists has to be one of the more depressing minor details of modern…

Reservoir 13 mcgregor
June 20, 2017

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

Review by David Hebblethwaite Jon McGregor is a writer whose work deserves the fullest attention, which it will repay with some extraordinary reading experiences….

The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
June 15, 2017

Questions for Amanda Craig about her novel, The Lie of the Land

Interview by Annabel Annabel: I loved reading The Lie of the Land, and it had me giggling all the way through. Before I discuss some of…

The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
June 15, 2017

The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig

Reviewed by Annabel Quentin and Lottie want to divorce – but they can’t afford to. Well, can’t afford to sell their big London house…

Tony Robinson no cunning plan
June 15, 2017

No Cunning Plan: My Story by Tony Robinson

Review by Laura Marriott Like many people I first came to know Tony Robinson through his role as Baldrick on Blackadder, before following him…

The Accusation by Bandi
June 13, 2017

The Accusation by Bandi

Translated by Deborah Smith Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth Look at all these people, sobbing over a death that happened three months ago, starving because…

The Santiago Pilgrimage by Jean-Christophe Rufin
June 13, 2017

The Santiago Pilgrimage by Jean-Christophe Rufin

Translated by Martina Devis & Malcolm Imrie Reviewed by Terence Jagger Monsieur Rufin is an impressive man, having founded Médecins sans Frontières, been an…

June 8, 2017

Running Blind by Desmond Bagley

Review by Annabel I’m delighted that the vogue for republishing the best thrillers from the 1960s onwards as exemplified by the books of Lionel…

June 8, 2017

The Photographer by Meike Ziervogel

Review by Hayley Anderton I first heard of Meike Ziervogel in the early days of her publishing house, Peirene Press, when I was offered…

June 6, 2017

Maigret Goes to School by Georges Simenon

Translated by Linda Coverdale Reviewed by Harriet What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he’d had the…

Checkpoint Rufin
June 6, 2017

Checkpoint by Jean-Christophe Rufin

Translated by Alison Anderson Review by Terence Jagger The first character we meet is Maud, a young and naive Frenchwoman who is apparently badly…

June 1, 2017

Deaths of the Poets by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts

Review by Harriet The deaths of poets matter to us because they become a lens through which to look at the poems. So say…

June 1, 2017

Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd

Review by Harriet ‘Aphra Behn was a woman who wore masks’. So says Janet Todd at the beginning of this monumental, newly revised biography…

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