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Book review: Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale
In Pilgrims, an assortment of medieval characters set off to Rome. They come from a range of backgrounds and have…
Book review: Sword by by Bogdan Teodorescu, translated by Marina Sofia
Sword is a political thriller from Romania, one of a number of translated titles from new indie publisher Corylus Books.…
Book review: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven imagined a pandemic and its aftermath, asking what could endure and what we would…
Audiobook review: In the Field by Jesse Loncraine, narrated by Adjoa Andoh
Sometimes you happen across a book that you feel should have had a lot of attention but somehow didn’t. In…
Book review: Crossed Skis by Carol Carnac
Carol Carnac is one of the pseudonyms used by Edith Caroline Rivett, who also wrote mysteries as ECR Lorac. Crossed…
Book review: The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Frank Eloff is a world-weary doctor in a remote South African hospital. His world is upturned when an idealistic young…
Book review: Paul Simon: The Life by Robert Hilburn
I’ve been a fan of Paul Simon since I saw Simon and Garfunkel’s The Concert in Central Park on TV…
An indefinite present, an unknowable future
This still doesn’t seem real. One minute I’m doing ordinary, everyday things, the next I remember that everything has changed.…
Book review: Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks (Harry McCoy #3)
It’s 1973. It’s Glasgow. It’s very hot. Detective Harry McCoy is embroiled in three different cases: the abduction of a…
