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Month: March 2019

Forms of enchantment marina warner
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…

what not rose macaulay
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…

Little faith nickolas butler
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,…

Uninhabitable earth
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…

Music Love Drugs War by Geraldine Quigley
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…

Andrea Camilleri sect of angels
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…

Picnic Storm yukiko Motoya
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…

Night Tiger Yangsze Choo
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…

Girl Balancing Helen Dunmore
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,…

Ziauddin Yousafzai with Louise Carpenter let her fly
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…

Winterman alex walters
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…

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