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Our Holiday by Louise Candlish – Review
By Helen Johnston This drama about the conflict between rich holiday home owners and locals struggling to afford a place ... -
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 ... -
What Doesn’t Kill Us by Ajay Close – Review
By Nigel Armitage Britain in the 1970s. “Women got battered all the time – neighbours, dinner ladies, the lass on ... -
The Best Of Matt 2023 – Review
By Dom Picksley Matt is one of those British institutions who has been around for longer than we care to ... -
The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein – Review
By Helen Johnston I’ve read some strange books in my time, but this one might just be the strangest. Not ... -
The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White – Review
By Sarah Morgan Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, Margaret Allingham… the Golden Age of crime fiction is packed full of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 Sanctuary by Emma Haughton – Review
By Sandra Callard The setting is a desert. Different, certainly, and it begins with thirty something Zoey who is trying ...
