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Month: November 2021

November 30, 2021

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

Review by Anna Hollingsworth Imagine if a book began to narrate your story to you. What kind of voice would that be? Would it…

November 30, 2021

Are We Having Fun Yet? By Lucy Mangan

Review by Annabel Those of you who’ve read journalist and author Lucy Mangan’s ‘memoir of childhood reading’, Bookworm, (which Liz reviewed here) will rejoice…

November 25, 2021

These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

Reviewed by Harriet I’m a great admirer of Ann Patchett’s novels. I read Bel Canto when it first came out and have loved her…

November 25, 2021

The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich with Noah Rothbaum

Review by Hayley Anderton The first book I met when I started working in the wine trade was Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to…

November 23, 2021

The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters

Reviewed by Julie Barham This is an historical novel with much to recommend it, and as it is created by a world famous crime…

November 23, 2021

‘Passing’ by Nella Larsen, from Novella to Screen

Chicago born author Nella Larsen is the daughter of a Dutch mother and a father of mixed race Afro-Caribbean from Danish West Indies. With…

November 18, 2021

Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi

Review by Simon Thomas As a place to be trapped, a train has a good precedent. Whether Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express,…

November 18, 2021

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

Translated by Frances Riddle Reviewed by David Hebblethwaite  Claudia Piñeiro is an author from Argentina who, so far, has mostly been published in English…

November 16, 2021

Adam O’Riordan answers questions on The Falling Thread

Interview by Harriet As an already successful poet and short-story writer, what made you turn to the novel? Was it a sudden decision or…

November 16, 2021

The Falling Thread by Adam O’Riordan

Reviewed by Harriet Unlike some of my fellow reviewers, I tend not to seize upon debut novels. Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I usually…

November 11, 2021

Which Way by Theodora Benson (Blog Tour)

Reviewed by Harriet Published in 1931 and newly reissued in the British Library Women Writers Series, this is a fascinating book in a number…

November 11, 2021

Allegorizings by Jan Morris

Review by Liz Dexter “If I had any moral principles to declare, I came to realize, they were extremely simplistic. First, there was the…

November 9, 2021

Silverview by John le Carré

Reviewed by Basil Ransome-Davies John le Carré, eh? Can’t do credible working-class dialogue, draws sympathetic female characters but rather abstractly, plots convoluted and full…

November 9, 2021

Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden by Benedict Macdonald & Nicholas Gates

Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Bristol friends and BBC colleagues Ben Macdonald and Nick Gates set out to chronicle a year in the life of…

November 4, 2021

Oldladyvoice by Elisa Victoria

Translated by Charlotte Whittle Review by Anna Hollingsworth When I pick up a book with a child narrator, it’s always with trepidation. I won’t…

November 4, 2021

George V: Never a Dull Moment, by Jane Ridley

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long A few years ago I read Jane Ridley’s biography of Edward VII, which I found a fascinating, fully rounded portrayal…

November 2, 2021

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

Reviewed by Harriet I first encountered Elizabeth Strout back in February 2017 – according to my review at the time [here] I’d spotted My…

November 2, 2021

The Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Review by Peter Reason This book offers a revision of our understanding of human cultural history, and so opens possibilities for different, maybe more…

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