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Month: May 2018

May 31, 2018

The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull

Reviewed by Harriet ‘From its first appearance in 1934, Richard Hull’s  The Murder of my Aunt was recognised as something special in crime fiction’. So…

May 31, 2018

A Dead Rose by Aurora Cáceres

Translation, Foreword & Notes by Laura Kanost Reviewed by Karen Langley The female form is often idealised in art and media, from classical sculptures…

House of Beauty by Melba Escobar
May 29, 2018

House of Beauty by Melba Escobar

Translated by Elizabeth Bryer Reviewed by Basil Ransome Davies Each time I walk into town from my house I pass at least one nail/beauty…

Territory-of-light
May 29, 2018

Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima

Translated by Geraldine Harcourt Reviewed by Annabel This latest addition to Penguin Classic’s expanding list of new translations in an upmarket paperback format is…

May 24, 2018

Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries, ed. Martin Edwards

Reviewed by Karen Langley Golden Age crime, which has had such a revival recently, is renowned for particular tropes and settings; the country house…

Islamic Civilisation Robinson
May 22, 2018

Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1000 Years by Chase F. Robinson

A beautiful object, as you can see from the cover image, this is published to be an accessible introduction to pre-modern Islam, looking at…

May 22, 2018

White Houses by Amy Bloom

Reviewed by Susan Osborne I’ve yet to read anything by Amy Bloom that I’ve not loved. Her writing is both deft and empathetic, pressing…

Akeing Heart Judd
May 17, 2018

Review of The Akeing Heart by Peter Haring Judd

Review by Simon How you approach The Akeing Heart will depend largely on how familiar you are with the names Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine…

May 17, 2018

Whistle in the Dark by Emma Healey

Reviewed by Harriet Four years after Emma Healey’s best selling Elizabeth is Missing comes her second novel, Whistle in the Dark. It’s a psychological…

May 15, 2018

Edgar & Lucy by Victor Lodato

Reviewed by Alice Farrant For seven years Florence, Lucy and Edgar have lived in the wake of Frank’s death. No one mentions Frank’s passing…

May 10, 2018

The Trick To Time by Kit de Waal

Reviewed by Alice Farrant Mona lives a quiet life as a dollmaker, at face value she appears to be an ordinary woman, however, in…

May 10, 2018

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Reviewed by Harriet Asymmetry is defined as ‘lack of equality or equivalence between parts’, a definition that applies both to a theme of this…

May 8, 2018

Souvenir (Object Lessons) by Rolf Potts

Review by Liz Dexter This book is part of the Object Lessons series, which exists to highlight the hidden lives of ordinary things. This…

Tangerine by Christine Mangan
May 3, 2018

Tangerine by Christine Mangan

Reviewed by Annabel They say that in Tangier, the local hustlers have clocked all the new arrivals within hours – this is what I…

Happiness by Aminatta Forna
May 3, 2018

Happiness by Aminatta Forna

Review by Lucy Unwin “You know how it is with white people. You say it’s race, they tell you you are mistaken. Then they…

Our Place Mark Cocker
May 1, 2018

Our Place: Can we save Britain’s wildlife before it is too late? by Mark Cocker

Review by Peter Reason When I was a small boy, back in the 1950s, we were taken on Sunday School outings to the seaside….

May 1, 2018

A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey

Reviewed by Harriet A Long Way from Home, as the title implies, is a novel of a journey in more than one sense. An…

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