The thing that I look for in a novel above everything is a distinctive voice. Shaun Baines’ writing drew me…
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Book review: All the Colours of the Town by Liam McIlvanney
After reading and loving Liam McIlvanney’s The Quaker last year, I was eager to try his earlier novels. As Brexit…
Book review: Give People Money by Annie Lowrey and Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
The idea of paying a basic income to all citizens, regardless of income or employment status, has attracted a lot…
Book review: Why We Dream by Alice Robb
Why We Dream has two interwoven strands. The first is a useful summary of the latest thinking in neuroscience on…
Book review: The Frank Business by Olivia Glazebrook
When Frank drops dead abruptly at Heathrow, his estranged daughter Jem travels to his home in France to arrange his…
Book review: The Nowhere Child by Christian White
Kim is a college lecturer having an ordinary day preparing for class when she is approached in a café by…
Guest post: author Q&A with Anthony Good
If you’ve read my review of Anthony Good’s novel, Kill [redacted], you’ll know how much I enjoyed it, so I…
Book review: Adèle by Leïla Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor
Adèle is a woman living an apparently privileged life in Paris, working as a journalist, married to a surgeon. But…
Book review: The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan
The Phoenix of Florence shifts tantalisingly between genres in its journey through Renaissance Tuscany. At first it seems like a…
Guest post: Gaby Koppel, author of Reparation
I’m fascinated by characters who don’t fit into simple categories – hero, villain, survivor, victim – so I was intrigued…
