May 28, 2021 The Octopus Man by Jasper Gibson Review by Anne Goodwin Tom doesn’t expect life to be easy; it’s more important to follow a true path. Single, jobless and reliant on…
January 24, 2019 Dark Water by Elizabeth Lowry Reviewed by Anne Goodwin Twenty-one-year-old Hiram Carver, assistant surgeon on the USS Orbis in 1833, senses something special about William Borden when he first…
December 6, 2016 Learning from Baby P by Sharon Shoesmith Reviewed by Anne Goodwin A civilised society must put structures in place to protect the vulnerable. When the vulnerable are children at risk from…
August 25, 2016 The Voices Within by Charles Fernyhough Reviewed by Anne Goodwin ‘Yeah, I put that in, surely!’ I laughed when I heard myself saying this the other morning as I stowed my…
January 19, 2016 The Social Brain: How Diversity Made the Modern Mind by Richard Crisp Reviewed by Anne Goodwin In the decades following the end of the Second World War, social psychology was preoccupied with an attempt to explain…
January 29, 2015 Playthings by Alex Pheby Reviewed by Anne Goodwin “Nothing to be concerned about” Daniel Paul Schreber reassures himself in the opening paragraph of Alex Pheby’s second novel. Just…
