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May 19, 2022

America Over the Water by Shirley Collins

Review by Annabel Shirley Collins is widely regarded as one of the most influential British folk singers of our times. Often singing alongside her…

April 28, 2022

Mischief Acts by Zoe Gilbert

Review by Annabel At this early stage of the year, it may be a bit forward of me to suggest that I may have…

April 26, 2022

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Review by Annabel Sometimes the hype is true, and a publisher’s lead-title for the season really is worth the advance praise heaped on it….

April 19, 2022

The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen

Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston Review by Annabel I’m always interested in adding new Nordic authors to my reading list, which is…

April 14, 2022

The Gift of a Radio by Justin Webb

Review by Annabel The TV news came on and a lugubrious looking chap in a light-coloured suit with a deep, plummy voice said something…

April 12, 2022

Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology by A. J. Lees

Reviewed by Annabel Dr Andrew Lees is a neurology professor at the National Hospital in London the first English hospital dedicated exclusively to treating…

March 29, 2022

Whatever Gets You Through the Night by Charlie Higson

Review by Annabel Back in the 1990s, Higson wrote four thrillers for adults, they were dark, nasty and funny. But after them he got…

March 22, 2022

Mother Mother by Annie Macmanus

Review by Annabel You may know Annie Macmanus as ‘Annie Mac’, the fomer Radio 1 DJ. She left the station last year to pursue…

March 3, 2022

The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein by Sharon Ruston

Review by Annabel Gaskell Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, her novel conceived during that momentous trip to Geneva in 1816 during ‘the year without a summer’,…

January 25, 2022

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

Review by Annabel Over recent years, I have been much enjoying the current vogue for the retelling of ancient myths and ancient history, especially…

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…

October 26, 2021

Raising Laughter: How the Sitcom Kept Britain Smiling in the ‘70s by Robert Sellers

Review by Annabel I watched an awful lot of telly in the 1970s, my formative teenage years. It was thus inevitable that between the…

October 21, 2021

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Review by Annabel Amor Towles’s first novel, Rules of Civility, was published in 2011 when he was in his mid-forties. It was such a…

September 30, 2021

Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe

Translated by Katy Derbyshire Review by Annabel It’s been exciting to see the variety of German books in translation coming from V&Q Books who…

September 23, 2021

Star Turns by Tim Walker

Review by Annabel Tim Walker’s name may ring a bell, particularly with broadsheet readers. During his career as a journalist, he has written for…

September 14, 2021

The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars, by Simon Morden

Review by Annabel Who hasn’t been enthralled by the idea of there being ‘Life on Mars’ even if said life ends up as the…

September 9, 2021

The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino

Translated by Rebecca Copeland Review by Annabel Japanese author Natsuo Kirino is primarily known for her crime novels, of which Out is the most…

August 5, 2021

Line by Niall Bourke

Reviewed by Annabel If I searched, I could probably fill a small shelf full of novels that have a sub-niche of their own that…

July 22, 2021

Everyone Is Still Alive by Cathy Rentzenbrink

Reviewed by Annabel You may know Cathy Rentzenbrink through her heart-breaking memoir published a few years ago. In The Last Act of Love, she…

July 13, 2021

Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice 1967-75 by Richard Thompson

Review by Annabel There are still people who doubtless haven’t heard of Richard Thompson. To those of us in the know though, he is…

June 16, 2021

Five Fascinating Facts About… Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Compiled by Annabel The Royal Society of Literature is celebrating ‘Dalloway Day‘ today – a Wednesday in the middle of June – when Virginia…

June 15, 2021

Rabbits by Terry Miles

Review by Annabel As I sat down to start reading this book, a tweet pinged on my phone and I glanced over – someone…

June 8, 2021

Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal

Translated by Jessica Moore Reviewed by Annabel Maylis de Kerangal is a novelist whose primary focus is not the characters that people her books,…

June 1, 2021

The Muse by Nell Dunn

Review by Annabel There is a particular sub-genre of memoir that almost goes into biography but fundamentally remains a memoir. I’m talking about memoirs…

May 20, 2021

The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl

Translated by Don Bartlett Reviewed by Annabel Kjell Ola Dahl is one of Norway’s foremost crime writers, especially known for his ‘Oslo detectives’ series,…

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