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December 8, 2020

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Paperback review by Anna Hollingsworth One way for a book to land a blow is to describe dark, brutal matters but to dress them…

November 24, 2020

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth Imagine a mining town and everything covered in shades of coal, from the people to the buildings to the sky…

November 10, 2020

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth How do you feel about the prospect of someone having sex with their grandfather? And…

October 22, 2020

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Translated by Anne Goldstein Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth Adolescence can be brutal, and in The Lying Life of Adults Elena Ferrante brings it out…

October 8, 2020

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth In one of the marketing quotes on its cover, The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida is described as “an elegantly…

September 22, 2020

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami

Translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth When Breasts and Eggs appeared in bookshops alongside all the Murakamis, Convenience Store…

September 17, 2020

People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

Translated by Ted Goossen Review by Anna Hollingsworth With Hiromi Kawakami, you don’t know what to expect other than that her writing will be…

May 21, 2020

Rendang by Will Harris

Review by Anna Hollingsworth Will Harris has been described as one of the most important young poets in the UK, and his debut collection…

Apeirogon Colum McCann
April 28, 2020

Apeirogon by Colum McCann

Review by Anna Hollingsworth The most exhilarating reviews to write are those where you can bring a book down, even if it’s just a…

March 3, 2020

Miss Austen by Gill Hornby

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth There’s a point in Miss Austen where I felt that my sins had been found out. Cassandra, Jane Austen’s now…

American Dirt Jeanine Cummins Tinder
January 21, 2020

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Review by Anna Hollingsworth Let’s face it: anything involving human tragedies, poverty, despair, abuse and crime offers a wealth of material for a novelist…

November 12, 2019

Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas

Review by Anna Hollingsworth My immediate reaction was a desperately deep sigh when, pre-launch, Dana Thomas’s Fashionopolis was trumpeted as a must-read revelatory work…

Aciman Find Me
October 31, 2019

Find Me by André Aciman

Review by Anna Hollingsworth There are two kinds of novels to which I don’t want to see a sequel. There are, of course, the…

Confession Jessie Burton
September 19, 2019

The Confession by Jessie Burton

Review by Anna Hollingsworth Capturing an era with impeccable accuracy is a challenge that anyone writing about the past must face; there will always…

August 15, 2019

One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan

Translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan Review by Anna Hollingsworth An author hardly tops any lists of most hazardous jobs, but looking at…

Frankissstein jeanette winterson
August 6, 2019

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

Review by Anna Hollingsworth If Dr Frankenstein’s creation took the form of a book, Frankissstein is what I imagine it would look like. There’s a transgender…

Najib Mahfuz The quarter roger allen
July 2, 2019

The Quarter by Najib Mahfouz

Translated by Roger Allen Review by Anna Hollingsworth On the rare occasions that someone uncovers unpublished work by a deceased writer, publishing takes an…

machines like me ian mcewan
June 20, 2019

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth My first reaction was a desperately deep sigh when I heard that Ian McEwan would be taking on human-like artificial…

isabella hammad the parisian
May 21, 2019

The Parisian by Isabella Hammad

Review by Anna Hollingsworth In the run-up to its publication, Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian was trumpeted as one of the most significant debuts of…

Pajtim Statovci Crossing
May 2, 2019

Crossing by Pajtim Statovci

Translated by David Hackston Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth Crossing is perhaps one of the vaguest book titles I have come across recently, especially given the…

Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
April 9, 2019

Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Translated by Sondra Silverston Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth If you asked me about the time I first discovered Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, I could tell you…

Music Love Drugs War by Geraldine Quigley
March 19, 2019

Music Love Drugs War by Geraldine Quigley

Review by Anna Hollingsworth The Troubles are exploding – in the best possible sense – onto the literary scene: two decades after the Good…

Picnic Storm yukiko Motoya
March 14, 2019

Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya

Translated by Asa Yoneda Review by Anna Hollingsworth The title of Yukiko Motoya’s short story collection Picnic in the Storm could easily be a…

Berta Isla by Javier Marias
January 17, 2019

Berta Isla by Javier Marías

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Review by Anna Hollingsworth I’m not one for classic spy stories: I don’t care if the martinis come shaken…

If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura
November 22, 2018

If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura

Translated by Eric Selland Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth Who doesn’t deal with the devil every now and again? Or perhaps a god from your…

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