The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Reviewed by Harriet Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from not being able to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding…
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Review by Karen Langley Denis Johnson was a prolific American author, producing during his writing life nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, three collections of poetry, two…
Heatwave, The Summer of 1976, Britain at Boiling Point by John L Williams
Review by Annabel Being a 1960-born baby, I was a t(w)eenager all through the 1970s, from start to finish. The decade encompassed my whole time at senior school and my…
The Teacher and the Beast by Imma Monsó
Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush Review by Michael Eaude In 1940s and 1950s Spain, young people rarely heard their parents explain anything about the 1936-39 Civil War. The war…
Future Rural: Imaging Tomorrow’s Countryside, edited by Adrian Cooper
Reviewed by Liz Dexter The countryside belongs to everyone. (Michael Morpurgo, Foreword) This interesting volume by the renowned and doughty nature and countryside publisher Little Toller Books brings together essays,…
A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz
Reviewed by Harriet I’m a great admirer of Anthony Horowitz’s crime novels, especially the two series which are so brilliantly metafictonal. One is the Sue Ryland series, starting with Magpie…