January 30, 2018 My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown Reviewed by Liz Dexter It’s the book everyone’s been waiting for that fills in the gaps left by Tony Blair’s autobiography and the various…
January 30, 2018 Science Fiction: A Literary History edited by Roger Luckhurst Reviewed by Annabel Once upon a time SF was a subculture haunted by small populations of nerds and geeks. Star Wars (1977) changed that,…
January 25, 2018 Ice by Anna Kavan Reviewed by Karen Langley Ice has come a long way since its first publication by its champion, Peter Owen, in 1968. My initial encounter with…
January 25, 2018 The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn Reviewed by Basil Ransome Davies This novel borrows its title from Fritz Lang’s canonical film noir (which is also a teasing, ironic comedy of the repressed…
January 23, 2018 Unaccompanied Minor by Alexander Newley Review by Annabel The children of celebrity couples inevitably have a hard time growing up, especially when their parents split. You need only think…
January 23, 2018 Lullaby by Leïla Slimani Translated by Sam Taylor Reviewed by Harriet Moroccan born novelist Leïla Slimani is not the first woman to win France’s most prestigious literary prize,…
January 18, 2018 In Search of Lost Books: The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes by Giorgio van Straten Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is an engaging book about other books, but it makes no judgements on them, and nor can we express,…
January 18, 2018 Eastern Horizons: Hitchhiking the Silk Road by Levison Wood Review by Liz Dexter It’s worth noting from the off that this is not a “new” travel book by the popular explorer, but a…
January 16, 2018 Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini Translated by Jamie Bulloch Reviewed by Terence Jagger We are not in Japan, but Germany; set in the snowy Black Forest, not far from…
January 16, 2018 Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann Reviewed by Harriet Most people probably think that the presence of black people in Britain began with the large influx of nearly 500 who…
