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Book review: A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman
Parveen is an Afghan-American anthropology student in California. Her progressive ideas are influenced by a driven and dynamic professor, but…
Book review: Who Owns England by Guy Shrubsole
In Who Owns England, Guy Shrubsole describes how his campaigning interests – from environmental damage on agricultural land to housing…
Book review: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Ask Again, Yes alights on different characters in the Gleeson and Stanhope families at various points through several decades. This…
Book review: A Single Source by Peter Hanington
A Single Source is the second in the series featuring William Carver, a veteran BBC foreign correspondent, and his tenacious young…
Audiobook review: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, narrated by Sean Crisden and Elsa Davis
Roy and Celestial are a young professional black couple in Atlanta. Life looks good until Roy is falsely accused of…
Book review: Murder in the Mill-Race by ECR Lorac
Murder in the Mill-Race, first published in 1952, is reissued as a British Library Crime Classic. It struck me as…
Guest post: Marianne Dissard, author of Not Me
I’m fascinated by the creative process and what drives people who work in different forms, so I was curious to…
Book review: Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Publishers make a lot of claims for their books but describing Night Boat to Tangier as ‘Waiting for Godot meets…
Guest post: Amy Ginsburg, author of The After Days
For me, post-apocalyptic fiction asks us not just how we would survive, but what would happen to our sense of…
