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Book Review: Every Fox Is a Rabid Fox, by Harry Gallon
Our narrator, Robert, is a killer. An unintentional killer at that, but still a killer.
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Book Review: Ornithology, by Nicholas Royle
I was attracted to this collection because of the title and the strikingly simple cover design. I like themed collections and I wondered how the author would ...
Pete Burns’ Left Testicle and Other Alternatives: Memory Songs, by James Cook
This book is about Michael Stipe’s shyness, Jarvis Cocker’s brown-cord genius and Pete Burns’ left testicle peeking out from his leotard for the entire duration of a gig he did ...
Book Review: Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich
Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich’s latest novel…takes the idea of a ‘retrieval of history’ seriously – not just in its pale liberal version (‘memory’), but as the ...
Book Review: Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan
Manhattan Beach is a novel bonded with the sea: from an epigraph by Melville (‘meditation and the water are wedded for ever’) to symbols of light, dark, and depth, Egan’s ...
Book Review: Guest, by SJ Bradley
Guest tackles one of the most scandalous abuses of our democracy in recent history – the infiltration of the Green movement by undercover policemen who formed relationships and had families ...
Book Review: The Other Hoffman Sister, by Ben Fergusson
The past few years have seen, once again, a growth and movement behind nationalism. From the cries to ‘take back our country’, the rejection of globalism for protectionism, to Brexit ...
Book Review: Another Justified Sinner, by Sophie Hopesmith
In Sophie Hopesmith’s debut novel, Another Justified Sinner, commodities trader Marcus aims to get square with God.
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Book Review: Illusion of an Overwhelm, by John Amen
Like the folk tradition that John Amen springs from, Illusion of an Overwhelm incorporates multiple registers including Americanisms, text speak and emojis, but the dominating patter is that of a ...
Book Review: The Threat Level Remains Severe, by Rowena Macdonald
A brilliantly observed examination of choices and consequences, of why we act as we do and of just how similar we all are.
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Book Review: Sour Heart, by Jenny Zhang
“Back when my parents and I lived in Bushwick in a building sandwiched between a drug house and another drug house, the only difference being that the dangers in one ...
Book Review: Unthology 9
A number of the stories gathered here begin promisingly and are well-written, but drift at the end. It is possible that, rather than being symptomatic of a general malaise, some ...
A Memory Box: Man with a Seagull on His Head, by Harriet Paige
It’s the sort of stuff you see but do not notice: in the gutter or down the back of a sofa, in the pocket of an old pair of trousers ...
Sex, Scripture and Lashings of Classic Twee Pop: A review of The First Day, by Phil Harrison
In the beginning Samuel Orr and Anna Stuart, two of the main protagonists of this novel, have nonchalant sex in Belfast. Lots of nonchalant sex. On the sly. In her ...
Book Review: Kumukanda, by Kayo Chingonyi
The beating heart of these poems is music, not least because of the poet’s own cross-genre creative output and a song’s uncanny ability to situate the reader immediately in a ...
Book Review: Petite Fleur, by Iosi Havilio
Written in one unbroken paragraph, Petite Fleur accumulates detail until it torques, taking on the rhythm of nightmare.
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Book Review: The White City, by Roma Tearne
Roma Tearne has earned a devoted following for her lyrical prose interspersed with sharp societal analysis.
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Dreaming of Home: Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Swing Time, an outlier in Zadie Smith’s oeuvre, is stylistically interesting, socially aware, funny and wise.
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Re-Reading AM Homes: Los Angeles – People, Places and the Castle on the Hill
This is a city with an infamous dark side, shadowy figures, hard-boiled noir, the Black Dahlia, the helter-skeleter of the Manson family killings…This is where “Reality TV” was born. This ...
A Hollowed-Out London: Resolution Way by Carl Neville
For fans of speculative fiction and “London” novels, Neville’s second novel arrives right on time.
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