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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In Sophie Hopesmith’s debut novel, Another Justified Sinner, commodities trader Marcus aims to get square with God.
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 ...
A brilliantly observed examination of choices and consequences, of why we act as we do and of just how similar we all are.
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Written in one unbroken paragraph, Petite Fleur accumulates detail until it torques, taking on the rhythm of nightmare.
Roma Tearne has earned a devoted following for her lyrical prose interspersed with sharp societal analysis.
Swing Time, an outlier in Zadie Smith’s oeuvre, is stylistically interesting, socially aware, funny and wise.
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 ...
For fans of speculative fiction and “London” novels, Neville’s second novel arrives right on time.
Annie Proulx’s naked language and painfully focused delivery make these stories shimmer and burn their way into the memory.
