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Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld – Review
By Barney Bardsley Curtis Sittenfeld is a clever and appealing writer, who achieved well-deserved acclaim for her fictionalised account of ... -
The Redemption of Isobel Farrar by Alan Robert Clark – Review
By Sandra Callard Set in 1926, this tight-paced and always interesting novel focuses on Isobel Farrar, a rich, elderly but ... -
Never Never by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher – Review
By Sandra Callard Written by two American authors, here is a sensitive and at the same time, startling, novel of ... -
In At The Kill by Gerald Seymour – Review
By Sandra Callard I was aware of the writing of the author Gerald Seymour, through his famous and stunning Harry’s ... -
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann – Review
By Barney Bardsley This beautiful, enigmatic little book was first published in German in 1963. It has taken 60 years ... -
The Company by JM Varese – Review
By Sandra Callard Set in London in 1870, The Company purports to be based on a true story from that ... -
Medusa by Jessie Burton – Review
By Barney Bardsley In Caravaggio’s stark portrait of Medusa, painted in 1597, she is captured at the moment of her ... -
Cut Adrift by Jane Jesmond – Review
By Sarah Morgan In an over-saturated market, finding a new voice with something compelling to say in the crime writing ... -
Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding – Review
By Sandra Callard This alarmingly unique debut novel centres on a group of women who all have had damaging issues ... -
Look Both Ways by Linwood Barclay – Review
By Sandra Callard On a small island somewhere off the coast of the USA a car manufacturer is launching a ... -
The Darlings of the Asylum by Noel O’Reilly – Review
By Sandra Callard Set loosely in some part of the eighteenth century, Violet is already over the usual age of ... -
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird – Review
By Sarah Morgan Ghosts, ghouls, phantoms, spectres... there are lots of names for those (usually) nighttime visitors from beyond the ...
