Books Editorial
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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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Rain
Mary & Bryan Talbot - The Costa award-winning team behind ‘Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes’ turn their attentions to eco matters in their latest graphic novel. It chronicles the l...
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The Dr. Phibes Companion
Justin Humphreys - ‘The Abominable Dr. Phibes’ (1971) is one of the best, and certainly one of the most idiosyncratic, horror films of the 1970s. Set in the 1920s it stars Vin...
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Berwick Lit Festival. Booked!
Berwick is justifiably proud of its position as a vibrant hub of literary talent, and this reaches its most visible manifestation with October’s super literary festival.
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Shadowplay
Joseph O’Connor - Set in Victorian London, the latest novel from Joseph O’Connor is a fictionalised account of the relationship between the two leading theatrical lights of th...
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Heaven, My Home
Attica Locke - Following the election of Donald Trump, racist crimes have been on the rise in Texas. Feeling particularly empowered are the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. But whe...
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Endgame
Daniel Cole - If you’re going to have a maverick detective then Wolf is a good a name as any (real name: William Oliver Layton-Fawkes). And the redoubtable Wolf is back in the...
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The Chain
Adrian McKinley - The United States. Modern day. Rachel receives a phone call informing her that her young daughter, Kylie, has been kidnapped. She is told that she must depos...
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The Offing
Benjamin Myers - Set in austerity Britain, just after the Second World War, ‘The Offing’ concerns 16-year-old Robert Appleyard who, on leaving school, decides that he wants to...
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Sweet Sorrow
David Nicholls - It might sound like an unnecessarily hackneyed device to write a novel about first love, and have your two protagonists starring in an amateur production of ‘...
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Live A Little
Howard Jacobson - Howard Jacobson is noted for his comic novels (very noted, he won the Booker Prize with ‘The Finkler Question’ back in 2010) but as well as being able to con...
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