Sometimes I feel like I want a lighter read, but when I search most of what I find is cookie-cutter … More
Author: Kate Vane
Book review: The Sharing Economy by Sophie Berrebi
Gabrielle Bloom leads an appealing life in Amsterdam. She is affluent and cultured, moving between her job liaising with artists … More
Book review: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Humour and fast-paced plotting from the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Luminaries Birnam Wood pits a group of guerilla … More
Book review: One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattacharya
One Small Voice skilfully interweaves the coming-of-age story of Shubhankar Trivedi (Shabby) with a backdrop of communal violence which touches … More
Book review: The Untameable by Guillermo Arriaga, translated by Frank Wynne and Jessie Mendez Sayer
A tale of revenge and redemption from the screenwriter of Amores Perros It is 1960s Mexico City. The parents of … More
Book review: My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor
My Father’s House is a novel based on a true story (very loosely based, O’Connor emphasises in an author’s note). … More
Book review: The New Life by Tom Crewe
The New Life draws on real events, but freely adapts them. In late-nineteenth-century London, John Addington and Henry Ellis (based … More
Series Love: The Chronicles of Carlingford by Margaret Oliphant
For some reason I haven’t found much to enjoy in newly published books recently, and have instead been losing myself … More
Book review: The End of Nightwork by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
Pol has a rare condition which means his body ages in sudden bursts, rather than gradually. At thirteen he aged … More
Book review: Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
Charles II has been restored to the throne and Parliament wants revenge on those who signed the death warrant of … More