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Month: April 2020

April 30, 2020

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis

Review by Liz Dexter First of all a caveat, in case any keen-eyed reader finds my name in the acknowledgements: I did work on…

Oulipo books
April 30, 2020

Puzzles, constraints and cryptograms: An Oulipo beginner’s primer

By Karen Langley Although you may never have heard the name of the literary group Oulipo, there’s a good chance you might actually have…

Apeirogon Colum McCann
April 28, 2020

Apeirogon by Colum McCann

Review by Anna Hollingsworth The most exhilarating reviews to write are those where you can bring a book down, even if it’s just a…

April 28, 2020

Actress by Anne Enright

Reviewed by Harriet Why have I never read Anne Enright before? I’m always interested in Booker prize winners (she won for The Gathering in…

April 23, 2020

‘Not’ the Wellcome Prize Blog Tour 2020 #2 – Galileo’s Error by Philip Goff

The Wellcome Book Prize is on hiatus this year – we really hope it’ll return in 2021 as this unique prize, which celebrates literature…

April 23, 2020

‘Not’ the Wellcome Prize Blog Tour 2020 #1 – Vagina A Re-Education by Lynn Enright

The Wellcome Book Prize is on hiatus this year – we really hope it’ll return in 2021 as this unique prize, which celebrates literature…

Lets Talk David crystal
April 21, 2020

Let’s Talk: How English Conversation Works by David Crystal

Review by Liz Dexter “What makes a successful conversation?” is a question David Crystal considers asking people in his new book – and, well,…

April 21, 2020

My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes

Reviewed by Harriet I’m sure I’m not alone in having rejoiced when the British Library announced a new series of reprints of 20th century…

April 16, 2020

A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier

Translated by Emily Boyce Reviewed by Annabel For the past eight years, Gallic Books have been translating and publishing the gloriously black-humored noir novellas…

April 16, 2020

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Back in early March, just before literary events started being cancelled due to coronavirus, I had the good fortune to…

April 14, 2020

The Birds They Sang: Birds and People in Life and Art by Stanisław Łubieński

Translated from Polish by Bill Johnston Review by Peter Reason Stanisław Łubieński first began observing birds in childhood through Soviet binoculars. Later, he took…

April 14, 2020

A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry

Reviewed by Harriet, 14 April 2020 In early times I was Ojinjintka, which means rose. Thomas McNulty tried very hard to say this name,…

April 9, 2020

A Bite of the Apple by Lennie Goodings

Review by Simon There’s a certain variety of person who can always spot a bottle-green spine at a hundred paces, and has faced the…

April 9, 2020

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Review by Peter Reason There has been a lot of interest recently in the idea of ‘rewilding’, expressed for example in Isabella Tree’s Wilding:…

April 7, 2020

She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India by Katie Hickman

Reviewed by Harriet What an enticing title! Made even more so by the sub-title, ‘British Women in India’.  Katie Hickman, who herself led a…

April 7, 2020

A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen by Martin Gayford and David Hockney

Reviewed by Liz Dexter This is a new ‘compact’ edition of this book, with a revised final chapter bringing it all up to date,…

April 2, 2020

The Language of Birds by Jill Dawson

Reviewed by Susan Osborne, 2 April 2020 I’m a fan of Jill Dawson’s writing. Her last novel, The Crime Writer, was a wonderful piece…

April 2, 2020

Drinking French by David Lebovitz

Review by Hayley Anderton Before everything started to close down the books I had been particularly anticipating, ordering, and reading, were mostly food and…

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