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Month: March 2021

March 30, 2021

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

Translated by Ho-Ling Wong Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is a very unusual book, and I initially disliked its artificiality – extreme, even by…

March 30, 2021

The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Translated by Philip Boehm Reviewed by Gill Davies This is an important republication of a novel which first appeared eighty years ago under a…

March 25, 2021

Notes From Deep Time: A journey through our past and future worlds by Helen Gordon

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Deep time has been a persistent theme in British nonfiction over the last couple of years, showing up in books…

March 25, 2021

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

Reviewed by Annabel With The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers brings her Wayfarers series to a close. The quartet began in 2015…

March 23, 2021

Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth After a year of daily Covid death reports, death really wasn’t something I wanted to hear any more of, let…

March 23, 2021

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1918-1938, edited by Simon Heffer

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long When I was a little girl I kept a diary. It was pink and fluffy with a lock and a…

March 18, 2021

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth  “At a loss for words”, “in awe” and “confused but thrilled” are all phrases that I could use to describe…

March 18, 2021

Keats by Lucasta Miller

Reviewed by Harriet It may not have escaped your attention that 2021 is the 200th anniversary of the death of John Keats. Yes, on…

March 16, 2021

Cathedral by Ben Hopkins

Reviewed by Terence Jagger The cathedral, and the difficulties building it, both physical, financial, and aesthetic, dominate the early parts of the book, and…

March 16, 2021

Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion

Reviewed by Basil Ransome-Davies Joan Didion knows that language is not a windowpane. Clarity, yes; transparency, no. To report a fact requires arranging words….

March 11, 2021

Tang: A Shetland Story by J.J. Haldane Burgess

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Northus is a new project from Michael Walmer (who’s own reprint series will be familiar to many readers here) and…

March 11, 2021

The Disciple by Michael Mallon

Reviewed by Annabel A novel about the increasingly toxic relationship between an old art historian and his young acolyte set in Florence was always…

March 9, 2021

Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend by Mark Glancy

Review by Elaine Simpson-Long There is a scene in Charade, a 1964 film which Cary Grant made with Audrey Hepburn, in which the following…

March 9, 2021

Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez

Translated by Christina MacSweeney Reviewed by Pete Freeth Havana Year Zero is a delightfully unusual detective story from Karla Suárez and translated into English…

March 5, 2021

Hotel Cartagena by Simone Buchholz

Translated by Rachel Ward Reviewed by Annabel I’ve come late to German ‘Queen of Krimi’ Simone Buchholz’s novels. Hotel Cartagena is the ninth of…

March 4, 2021

The Panic Years by Nell Frizzell

Reviewed by Harriet ‘Every millennial woman should have this on her bookshelf’ says Pandora Sykes on the front of Nell Frizzell’s new book. New…

March 4, 2021

She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh

Reviewed by Basil Ransome Davies Forty years ago I spent some time on the motel strip at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, to do some hiking…

March 2, 2021

The Ice by John Kåre Raake

Translated by Adam King Reviewed by Gill Davies John Kåre Rake is a successful Norwegian screen writer and this is his first novel. It’s…

March 2, 2021

Grayson’s Art Club: The Exhibition (Manchester Art Gallery, 2020)

Reviewed by Liz Dexter Back at the beginning of the first lockdown, Grayson Perry, potter and tapestry maker extraordinaire and no stranger to intimate…

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