The Borrowed Hills is narrated by Steve Elliman, looking back on his life and his complicated relationship with his home … More
Tag: literary thriller
Book review: The Guest by Emma Cline
Emma Cline’s evocative summer novel is one of my books of the year I put off reading The Guest because … More
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
Book review: The Untameable by Guillermo Arriaga, translated by Frank Wynne and Jessie Mendez Sayer
A tale of revenge and redemption from the screenwriter of Amores Perros It is 1960s Mexico City. The parents of … More
Book review: My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor
My Father’s House is a novel based on a true story (very loosely based, O’Connor emphasises in an author’s note). … More
Book review: Instructions for the Working Day by Joanna Campbell
Neil Fischer is shy, socially awkward and repressed – an English archetype. His late father, though, was from East Germany. … More
Book review: Kingdomtide by Rye Curtis
Kingdomtide tells the story of two women, one who is lost in wilderness following a plane crash, the other a … More
Book review: Where the Edge Is by Gráinne Murphy
In Where the Edge Is, disaster befalls a small town in Cork when a bus falls into a sinkhole in … More
Book review: Who Is Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht (Vera Kelly #1)
Vera Kelly is posing as a Canadian student in Buenos Aires in 1966, but she is actually working for the … More