Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson
Reviewed by Harriet ‘The country is stuck in the doldrums; we need to see the future’. So says Gerald Barry, one of the organisers of the 1951 Festival of Britain….
Eyes by Janet Burroway
Reviewed by Rob Spence Probably the most disturbing scene in Shakespeare occurs in Act 3 of King Lear, when Gloucester, duped by his bastard son Edmund, is delivered into the hands…
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
Reviewed by Harriet He wasn’t a fence today. He was a thief among his kind. Anyone who’s read Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle and/or his Crook Manifesto will welcome Cool Machine,…
Rainforest by Michelle Paver
Review by Annabel I’ve really enjoyed all three of Michelle Paver’s previous supernatural novels for adults; Dark Matter, Thin Air and the Gothic Wakenhyrst. Thin Air – the one I read first – is my…