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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…

Happiness by Aminatta Forna
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…

We That Are Young
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…

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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…

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
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…

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