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Month: April 2019

Moray Dalton Harriet Hall
April 30, 2019

The Strange Case of Harriet Hall by Moray Dalton

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long More and more unknown or unfamiliar writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction are being unearthed and reprinted and…

Kindness of Strangers
April 30, 2019

The Kindness of Strangers by Salka Viertel

Reviewed by Lizzy Siddal There are times when an autobiography by someone you’ve never heard of just slots into your current reading stream. Such…

Artifical Silk Girl Keun
April 25, 2019

The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun

Translated by Kathie von Ankum Reviewed by Harriet If a young woman from money marries an old man because of money and nothing else…

Metropolis Philip kerr
April 25, 2019

Metropolis by Philip Kerr

Reviewed by Max Dunbar Swan Song (For A City) Stephen King once wrote of the ‘Grey Havens’ as a kind of afterlife where fictional…

Daisy Jones and the six taylor jenkins reid
April 18, 2019

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Reviewed by Annabel There was a lot of pre-publishing buzz about Daisy Jones and The Six – it was instantly signed up by Amazon for a…

A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle
April 18, 2019

A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies Some novels strike such an authentic note in the beginning that they give you the immediate assurance — the eagerness…

Adele leila slimani
April 16, 2019

Adèle by Leïla Slimani

Translated by Sam Taylor Review by Annabel Slimani’s first novel to be translated into English, Lullaby, took the English-speaking publishing world by storm. It…

Cocoa sue quinn
April 16, 2019

Cocoa An Exploration of Chocolate, With Recipes, by Sue Quinn

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton There are all sorts of reasons I pick up cookbooks to look at: I like the cover, I like the…

Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
April 11, 2019

Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li

Reviewed by Annabel For some, this debut novel was a surprise inclusion on the longlist for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction this year…

Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
April 9, 2019

Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Translated by Sondra Silverston Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth If you asked me about the time I first discovered Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, I could tell you…

The Art of Life Admin
April 9, 2019

The Art of Life Admin: How to do Less, do it Better, and Live More, by Elizabeth Emens

Review by Liz Dexter Emens is a professor of Law who made the discovery a while back that there was something invisible and other…

Wellcome Book Prize shortlists
April 4, 2019

A Spotlight on the Wellcome Book Prize

By Rebecca Foster Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, the Wellcome Book Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, a global…

Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
April 2, 2019

Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy

Review by Rob Spence It probably doesn’t occur to many people as they struggle to fix bolt B to batten F of the Ikea…

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