June 7, 2018 The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh Reviewed by Lucy Unwin I can’t remember seeing a more perfect cover for a book in a while. Everything you need to know about The…
May 3, 2018 Happiness by Aminatta Forna Review by Lucy Unwin “You know how it is with white people. You say it’s race, they tell you you are mistaken. Then they…
November 21, 2017 We that are Young by Preti Taneja Reviewed by Lucy Unwin We That Are Young is ambitious. So very ambitious, and so very good. Most strikingly it’s a thorough and impressive academic…
November 16, 2017 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Reviewed by Lucy Unwin This is the most grittily realistic book I’ve read in a while — it just happens to be a ghost…
October 10, 2017 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Paperback review by Lucy Unwin There is no question, this book is stunning: in its scope, its ambition, in what it can teach us…
July 27, 2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Paperback review by Lucy Unwin This is not a historical novel. Not just because the facts of slavery in pre-Civil War America are strained…
July 6, 2017 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy Reviewed by Lucy Unwin Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize winning debut The God Of Small Things was a sensuous, atmospheric, emotionally powerful book. India’s caste system was…
June 20, 2017 A conversation with Sally Rooney, author of Conversations With Friends Interview by Lucy Unwin We caught up with Sally at the Hay Festival 2017 where she told us: The foursome at the centre of…
June 20, 2017 Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney Reviewed by Lucy Unwin That the Bechdel Test for movies even exists has to be one of the more depressing minor details of modern…
May 18, 2017 Interview with Megan Hunter about The End We Start From Interview by Lucy Unwin Lucy: This is a very unusual book: it may be a novel, but it has the sensibility of poetry. People…
May 18, 2017 The End We Start From by Megan Hunter Reviewed by Lucy Unwin The first thing to say about The End We Start From is it’s not a standard book of fictional prose. The story…
March 30, 2017 The Nix by Nathan Hill Reviewed by Lucy Unwin No book could be simultaneously more timely and more timeless than this future classic. The Nix is fun, joyous, exciting…
