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Month: September 2021

September 30, 2021

The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye

By Liz Dexter This book is primarily concerned with explaining how society, as it is currently arranged, often makes trans people’s lives unnecessarily difficult….

September 30, 2021

Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe

Translated by Katy Derbyshire Review by Annabel It’s been exciting to see the variety of German books in translation coming from V&Q Books who…

September 28, 2021

Two nature memoirs set in the New Forest: Goshawk Summer by James Aldred & The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell

By Rebecca Foster Two recent memoirs have shone a spotlight on the fauna and management strategies of the New Forest, a place my Hampshire-raised…

September 28, 2021

The Lifeline by Hugo Charteris

By Rob Spence If you are, as I am, a child of the fifties, then one of your first televisual memories will be of…

September 23, 2021

Mary Magdalene by Adriana Valerio

Translated by Wendy Wheatley Reviewed by Harriet Adriana Valerio is an Italian historian and theologian. One of the first women in Italy to be…

September 23, 2021

Star Turns by Tim Walker

Review by Annabel Tim Walker’s name may ring a bell, particularly with broadsheet readers. During his career as a journalist, he has written for…

September 21, 2021

A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery

Translated by Alison Anderson Review by Annabel We’re delighted to be featured in the blog tour for Muriel Barbery’s new novel today – do…

September 21, 2021

The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer

Review by Hayley Anderton I’ve been reading The Black Moth along with the Georgette Heyer Readalong on Twitter, where we have very mixed feelings…

September 16, 2021

The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani

Translated by Sam Taylor Reviewed by Harriet Back in 2018 I read and reviewed Leïla Slimani’s best-selling, Goncourt-Prize-winning novel Lullaby [here]. Soon afterwards I…

September 16, 2021

All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus

Review by Anna Hollingsworth ”your 2am text / lit / like a dog panting / on her screen / hot rattling engine / pile…

September 14, 2021

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Reviewed by Gill Davies Although he has published twelve novels since 1985, I only discovered Richard Powers through his stunning 2018 novel The Overstory…

September 14, 2021

The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars, by Simon Morden

Review by Annabel Who hasn’t been enthralled by the idea of there being ‘Life on Mars’ even if said life ends up as the…

September 9, 2021

Paradise by Kae Tempest

Review by Anna Hollingsworth Remember, this man is not our friend, he is our weapon. OK? So, we treat him like we treat any…

September 9, 2021

The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino

Translated by Rebecca Copeland Review by Annabel Japanese author Natsuo Kirino is primarily known for her crime novels, of which Out is the most…

September 7, 2021

Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It’s Not What You Say but How You Say It, by Jane Setter

Review by Liz Dexter I would like the message of this chapter to be that we should all be more tolerant of people’s voice…

September 7, 2021

Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies No one expects an approving biography of Joseph Stalin any more than they do the Spanish Inquisition. He is a…

September 2, 2021

Frontline by Dr Hilary Jones

Review by Julie Barham Medical knowledge and techniques were vastly increased during and immediately after the First World War, as the loss of so…

September 2, 2021

Dead Famous by Greg Jenner

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies Andy Warhol (if it was he, who disowned the soft impeachment) was kidding when he said that in the future…

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