Book review: People With No Charisma
A bleak, emotionally draining novel that explores life’s trivial anxieties with humorless precision—reading it feels like enduring depression on the page.
Book review: Past Lying
The plot of a dead author’s half-finished manuscript eerily mirrors the real-life disappearance of a young woman. In an Edinburgh lockdown, McDermid’s cold case cop…
Book review: Resurrection Walk
In the latest police-legal procedure combo from Michael Connelly, Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller and his half-brother Harry Bosch join forces to free a woman imprisoned…
Book review: Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano’s fourth novel is an emotional family saga that promises to stay with you long after you finish reading it
Book review: The Broken Places
Russell Franklin’s book is a poetic and emotional fictional account of Ernest Hemingway’s trans daughter, Gloria.
Book review: The Settlement
An enthralling retelling of the ill-fated Wybalenna settlement, Jock Serong confronts the harsh realities of Australia’s colonial history.
Book review: What about men?
Comedian and commentator Caitlin Moran follows her humorous feminist manifesto with a tongue-in-cheek look at the strange world of men.
Book review: The Wager
A mostly forgotten maritime misadventure is transformed into a newly thrilling saga of hubris, nemesis and treachery on the high seas
Book review: Tom Lake
Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake is a delightful tale of a mother recounting a long-ago romance to her adult daughters
Book review: The Three of Us
The Three of Us by British-Nigerian writer Ore Agbaje-Williams is a comedy of manners and much more, touching on truths about friendships, expectations around marriage,…