Books Editorial
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Portrait of a Murderer
Anne Meredith - This is the fiftieth in the British Library Crime Classics run of novels, which began in 2014 with the unexpected Christmas hit Mystery in White. The series ha...
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Taking Back The Underground
Steven Storrie - This is the second collection of poems from Steven Storrie (Middlesbrough born, now based in Newcastle) and it’s as hard hitting as the chap on the front cove...
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Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan pulled off all manner of stylistic fireworks with her (excellent) 2010 novel Welcome to the Goon Squad, but her latest – save for a bit of timeline chopping – is...
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My Absolute Darling
This debut novel has been winning rare praise and with little wonder. Set on the Mendocino Coast in modern day California it tells the story of 14-year-old girl Turtle Alvestr...
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The Sparsholt Affair
The Sparsholt Affair in Alan Hollinghurst’s latest, decades spanning, novel, takes place in the 1960s and involves a gay affair between World War II hero David Sparsholt, his ...
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Sugar Money
There was much intrigue at the heart of Jane Harris’ previous two novels - The Observations and Gillespie and I (both excellent) – which were both set in the 19th century. For...
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Lord of the Dead
The second novel from local author Richard Rippon begins with the mutilated body of a woman being discovered in Allendale, Northumberland. On the case are the local force who ...
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IQ
Joe Ide - Isaiah Quintabe, the eponymous IQ of this debut novel, is a 20-something living at East Long Beach in LA. He’s a high school dropout, but the skills he has developed...
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These Darkening Days
Benjamin Myers - Benjamin Myers’ novel Turning Blue was a particularly grim, but compulsive, thriller set in North Yorkshire with all manner of nefarious misdeeds being commit...
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Forest Dark
Nicole Krauss - Nicole Krauss’ latest has won plaudits a plenty (“A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration.” – Philip Roth) but it left me cold. Its duel narrative takes us ...
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The Chess Traveller
Peter Mortimer - The latest book from Cullercoats based Peter Mortimer is a curious travelogue in which the septuagenarian poet and playwright had his blindfolded partner chuc...
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Wired Thoughts
D. R. Dixon - In the mini biog at the back of this rather strange book, it tells us that Den Dixon is not a motivational speaker, a professor, a therapist, or a counsellor. It...
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The Party
Elizabeth Day - When we first meet Martin Gilmour he is in the interview room of a police station being quizzed about the events of a party, a big society do for the 40th birt...
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