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Month: January 2018

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown
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…

Science Fiction: A Literary History edited by Roger Luckhurst
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…

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
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…

Unaccompanied minor
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…

Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
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,…

In Search of Lost Books:
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,…

Eastern Horizons- Hitchhiking the Silk Road
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…

Zen and the Art of Murder by Oliver Bottini
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…

Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann
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…

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