Book review: Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra

In Run and Hide, Arun Dwivedi tells the story of his life and how it intertwines with three other men…

Book review: The Colony by Audrey Magee

Lloyd is travelling to a remote Irish island because he wants to paint the cliffs. He is going in a…

I loved A Little Life so I was looking forward to getting to grips with another big book by Hanya…

I’m reposting this review of A Little Life, written before I had a blog, ahead of publication of Hanya Yanagihara’s…

What a joy it is to have a new Elizabeth Strout novel! This is the third featuring Lucy Barton. Lucy…

Small Things Like These is just my kind of book, quietly powerful, beautifully told. Bill Furlong is a coal merchant…

In The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, lawyer, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon struggles to advance his place at the court…

The Echo Chamber features a deeply unappealing family whose life is upended by their addiction to celebrity culture and, in…

I was interested in this novel because I recently read Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, which tells the story of Genghis…

This is one of my occasional series where I share my thoughts on the whole of a book, so if…