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Book review: Nuclear Family by Kate Davies
A fun family drama from the Polari Prize-winning author of In at the Deep End Nuclear Family is centred on … More
Book review: Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
An immersive campus novel about friendship and failings from the author of Such a Fun Age Come and Get It … More
Book review: The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
It’s 1929 and Baxter is a porter on sleeper trains crossing Canada. He is a young black man who has … More
Book review: The New Life by Tom Crewe
The New Life draws on real events, but freely adapts them. In late-nineteenth-century London, John Addington and Henry Ellis (based … More
Book review: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
I loved A Little Life so I was looking forward to getting to grips with another big book by Hanya … More
Book review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
I’m reposting this review of A Little Life, written before I had a blog, ahead of publication of Hanya Yanagihara’s … More
Book review: The Dangerous Kingdom of Love by Neil Blackmore
In The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, lawyer, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon struggles to advance his place at the court … More
Book review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
I was interested in this novel because I recently read Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, which tells the story of Genghis … More
Book review: The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
The Great Mistake is a novel based on the life and death of Andrew Haswell Green, the “Father of Greater … More