Book review: Audition
Katie Kitamura’s new novel is a puzzling, and compelling story that continues to explore the themes of marriage she introduced in her previous work.
By Amy Dale - 2 min read
Book review: Wild Dark Shore
The bestselling author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves brings a novel about a family living alone on a remote island during a climate-change-induced…
By Pippa Lyons - 2 min read
Book review: The Message
In three essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores his personal relationship with identity, culture, and apartheid
By Vincent Barry - 4 min read
Book review: 2024 Booker Prize winner Orbital
A single day account which tells the earthly story of being alive.
By Amy Dale - 3 min read
Book review – The First Friend
Set in the Soviet Union during the peak of Stalinism, The First Friend is an absurdist comedy on the legacy of despots and blood-thirsty dictators.
By Vincent Barry - 3 min read
Book review – The Waiting
Detectives Harry Bosch and Reneé Ballard join forces again in a new Michael Connelly page turner that delivers exactly what it promises.
By Pippa Lyons - 2 min read
Book review: Nothing More To Tell
An immersive and gripping young adult thriller
By Noa Granek - 2 min read
Book review: Safe Haven
Shankari Chandran’s gripping and persuasive novel of asylum seekers, reads like an open wound.
By Jen Webb - 6 min read
Book review: The Vulnerables
Sigrid Nunez signs a COVID novel that has the same kind of humour, observation and literary references her fans recognise.
By Amy Dale - 2 min read