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Month: September 2020

September 29, 2020

Jack by Marilynne Robinson

Reviewed by Harriet He was walking behind her, two steps behind. She did not look back. She said, “I’m not talking to you”. “I…

September 29, 2020

The Madness by Narcís Oller

Translated from the Catalan by Douglas Suttle Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff Joining the ranks of small presses dedicated to one particular region or language,…

September 24, 2020

Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Unexpected Places by Gareth E. Rees

Reviewed by Liz Dexter Opening notably and powerfully with a description of travelling through a traditional countryside location, innocent dry stone walls at first,…

September 24, 2020

Treasure Islands by Alec Crawford

Review by Hayley Anderton The cover of this book is attractive, and the tag line ‘True Tales of a Shipwreck Hunter’ might always have…

September 22, 2020

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami

Translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth When Breasts and Eggs appeared in bookshops alongside all the Murakamis, Convenience Store…

September 22, 2020

Playing Nice by JP Delaney

Reviewed by Harriet Back in 2017 I reviewed JP Delaney’s brilliant psychological thriller The Girl Before on Shiny (here). All I know about the…

September 21, 2020

Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner by Francis Nenik

Translated by Katy Derbyshire Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff This September sees the launch of V&Q Books, a brand-new publishing imprint with the mission of…

September 17, 2020

Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal by Sarah Maslin Nir

Review by Liz Dexter Sarah Maslin Nir is a staff reporter for the New York Times who, by her own admission, has sought out…

September 17, 2020

People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

Translated by Ted Goossen Review by Anna Hollingsworth With Hiromi Kawakami, you don’t know what to expect other than that her writing will be…

September 15, 2020

The Lies you Told by Harriet Tyce

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long Last year I read Blood Orange, which was Harriet Tyce’s debut novel.  One of the reasons I read it was…

September 15, 2020

Riders on the Storm: The climate crisis and the survival of being by Alastair McIntosh

Review by Peter Reason Alastair McIntosh is a Scottish Quaker, peace, community and environmental writer and campaigner, maybe best described as a spiritual activist….

September 10, 2020

Red Pill by Hari Kunzru

Reviewed by Annabel I’ve been a fan of Kunzru’s writing since his first novel was published. He is one of those authors that always…

September 10, 2020

Non-Combatants and Others by Rose Macaulay

Reviewed by Karen Langley Rose Macaulay is mainly known for her 1956 novel The Towers of Trebizond; yet she was an astonishingly prolific writer,…

September 8, 2020

The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes

Reviewed by Liz Dexter A book that is in turns entertaining, lyrical and shocking, you won’t think about the countryside – or the rivers…

September 3, 2020

King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes

Translated by Frank Wynne Reviewed by Annabel I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the old, the bull dykes, the…

Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake
September 3, 2020

Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Review by Peter Reason Entangled Lives by Merlin Sheldrake has been greeted with much enthusiasm, not least by Robert Macfarlane in the New Yorker….

September 1, 2020

Potterism by Rose Macaulay

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Handheld Press are fast becoming my favourite independent press. Their book choices are consistently interesting, their editions well produced with particularly…

September 1, 2020

Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay

Reviewed by Harriet Another very welcome addition to the new British Library Women Writers series, Dangerous Ages was published in 1921. It’s a fascinating…

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