Humberside detective DS Aector McAvoy is on holiday in a remote location when news reaches him that he has been…
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Book review: The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
The eponymous narrator of The Funeral Cryer muses on the way names constrain and mislead. They are used as signifiers…
Book review: Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Tech activist and sci-fi author Cory Doctorow turns to crime Marty Hench is a 67-year-old forensic accountant specialising in unravelling…
Book review: Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
Intriguingly, Night Wherever We Go is narrated in the third-person plural. The six women at the heart of it, all…
Book review: Sleepwalk by Don Chaon
The narrator of Sleepwalk is a man of many aliases, who calls himself the Barely Blur. He lives off grid…
Book review: The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
Science writer and Superior author Angela Saini on the oppression of women I’ve read a fair amount on the origins…
Book review: The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde
Sometimes I feel like I want a lighter read, but when I search most of what I find is cookie-cutter…
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…
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…
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…
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