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All Fours by Miranda July – Review
By Barney Bardsley Miranda July’s new novel is definitely not for the fainthearted. Raucous, raw, and sexually explicit, it follows ... -
Hilary Mantel: A Memoir of my Former Self – Review
By Barney Bardsley When novelist Hilary Mantel died in 2022, there was a real and palpable sense of loss – ... -
Putin and the Return of History by Martin Sixsmith, with Daniel Sixsmith – Review
By Barney Bardsley Hard to forget the euphoria of November 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall; the collapse of ... -
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s House by Gilbert McCarragher – Review
By Barney Bardsley Prospect Cottage stands in solitary splendour on the wild shingle beach at Dungeness. Its canary yellow window ... -
Your Wild and Precious Life by Liz Jensen – Review
By Barney Bardsley Raphael Coleman was a young environmental activist – just 25 years old – when he collapsed suddenly ... -
The Picnic by Matthew Longo – Review
By Barney Bardsley For those old enough to remember it, the fall of the Berlin Wall must count as one ... -
Notebooks of a Wandering Monk by Matthieu Ricard – Review
By Barney Bardsley The life journey of Matthieu Ricard, explored here in his lengthy autobiography, is not that of a ... -
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic by Seamus O’Mahoney – Review
By Barney Bardsley This account of the birth of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century is a rip-roaring page turner ... -
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 ... -
Why We Garden by Claire Masset – Review
By Barney Bardsley This well-researched and peaceful book introduces us not just to the many benefits that gardening can bring ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
