Books Editorial
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Oligarchy
Scarlett Thomas - We don’t come across any oligarchs in Scarlett Thomas’s deliciously dark and funny new novel, but we do meet Natasha, the 15-year-old daughter of a shady Rus...
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Starve Acre
Andrew Michael Hurley - Andrew Michael Hurley proved himself a modern master of unnerving folk horror in previous novels ‘The Loney’ and ‘Devil’s Day’, but this is his best wo...
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Somewhere Becoming Rain
Clive James - For a poet that is often praised for being “straight forward” and “easy to understand”, especially when compared to 20th century modernists, there is an awful lo...
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Bad Magic
A. M. Stirling - The key dynamic in this thriller is between cousins, Richard and Amanda, who share a creepy lust/hate relationship. Amanda, a couple of years older than Richa...
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My Life Is Like A Fairy Tale
Robert Irwin - 1944. Germany. Despite the promise of “Hitler’s secret weapon” most Germans have come round to the notion that the war is not going their way. Sonja Heda, meanw...
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Maggy Garrisson
Lewis Trondheim & Stéphane Oiry - Oddly enough this graphic novel was put together by two Frenchman (with translation by Emma Watson – not that one) but it couldn’t be more Br...
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What She Saw Last Night
MJ Cross - This psychological thriller begins with shades of The Lady Vanishes. Jenny Bowen gets on the Caledonian sleeper from London to Scotland. While boarding she sees a w...
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This Little Dark Place
A. S. Hatch - This debut novel is told in the form of an extended letter, which has been written by Daniel from a place of incarceration. He tells Lucy – we don’t find out who...
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The Sound of Her Voice
Nathan Blackwell - Matt Buchanan – the detective in Nathan Blackwell’s New Zealand set novel – tells us on more than one occasion over the course of this book that real life p...
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Against Memoir
Michelle Tea - Michelle Tea is an American author, poet and literary arts organiser whose best-known works are in fiction and memoir with particular emphasis on queer culture,...
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The Testaments
Margaret Atwood - First up: Margaret Atwood’s sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ does not sully the memory of the original. Praise be! It’s set around 15 years after the events o...
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The Art of Dying
Ambrose Parry - Young doctor Will Raven is a man with a past, some of it shady. But when he leaves Berlin to return to his hometown of Edinburgh, circa 1849, he manages to fin...
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones - The winner of the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction is now out in paperback. The titular marriage is between African Americans Celestial and Roy, who have been wed...
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