March 28, 2019 Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner Review by Helen Parry Although Marina Warner is perhaps best known (and deservedly) for her magnificent work on fairy tales, she has long been…
March 26, 2019 What Not by Rose Macaulay Introduced by Sarah Lonsdale with notes by Kate Macdonald Review by Karen Langley The name of Rose Macaulay is not one that will necessarily…
March 26, 2019 Little Faith by Nickolas Butler Reviewed by Harriet This is Nickolas Butler’s third novel. He was widely praised for his first, Shotgun Lovesongs, which was published in 2014, and…
March 26, 2019 War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Looking out from my inconsequential life, I’m often envious of people who save lives on a regular basis – doctors,…
March 21, 2019 The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells Review by Peter Reason I am approaching my seventy fifth birthday. As I look back, I see my life has been overshadowed by the…
March 21, 2019 Happy Little Bluebirds by Louise Levene Reviewed by Susan Osborne Louise Levene’s last novel, The Following Girls, was a pitch-perfect satire on ‘70s schoolgirl life whose period detail rang more…
March 19, 2019 Music Love Drugs War by Geraldine Quigley Review by Anna Hollingsworth The Troubles are exploding – in the best possible sense – onto the literary scene: two decades after the Good…
March 19, 2019 The Sect Of Angels by Andrea Camilleri Translated by Stephen Sartarelli Reviewed by Gill Davies In addition to the Inspector Montalbano novels, best known to English readers from the TV adaptations…
March 14, 2019 Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya Translated by Asa Yoneda Review by Anna Hollingsworth The title of Yukiko Motoya’s short story collection Picnic in the Storm could easily be a…
March 14, 2019 The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo Review by Rob Spence English-language fiction set in colonial Malaya tended in the past to focus on the lives of the Empire types who…
March 12, 2019 Girl Balancing by Helen Dunmore Review by Harriet It was a great loss to the world of fiction when Helen Dunmore sadly died in 2017. Fortunately for her admirers,…
March 12, 2019 Let Her Fly: A Father’s Journey and the Fight for Equality by Ziauddin Yousafzai with Louise Carpenter Review by Liz Dexter I received a copy of this book by Malala Yousafzai’s father from NetGalley and then managed to find a copy…
March 7, 2019 Alice by Elizabeth Eliot Reviewed by Simon Hurrah to Dean Street Press and their continued Furrowed Middlebrow series, bringing back underrated women writers that most of us haven’t…
March 7, 2019 All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison Reviewed by Susan Osborne Both Melissa Harrison’s previous novels are notable for their vividly evocative descriptions of the English countryside, the kind of thing…
March 5, 2019 Winterman by Alex Walters Review by Rob Spence East Anglia has quite a lot of previous when it comes to crime fiction: Colin Watson’s chronicles of Flaxborough, James…
