Book review: Sleepwalk by Don Chaon

The narrator of Sleepwalk is a man of many aliases, who calls himself the Barely Blur. He lives off grid … More

Book review: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Humour and fast-paced plotting from the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Luminaries Birnam Wood pits a group of guerilla … More

A tale of revenge and redemption from the screenwriter of Amores Perros It is 1960s Mexico City. The parents of … More

My Father’s House is a novel based on a true story (very loosely based, O’Connor emphasises in an author’s note). … More

Neil Fischer is shy, socially awkward and repressed – an English archetype. His late father, though, was from East Germany. … More

Kingdomtide tells the story of two women, one who is lost in wilderness following a plane crash, the other a … More

In Where the Edge Is, disaster befalls a small town in Cork when a bus falls into a sinkhole in … More

Vera Kelly is posing as a Canadian student in Buenos Aires in 1966, but she is actually working for the … More

I don’t often take part in group giveaways. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by a wall of books with very little in … More

There was a happy time when I was naive enough to think that a story of wealth, power and corruption … More