Books Editorial
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Sara Collins has said of her debut novel that she wanted to put a Jamaican woman in Jane Austen territory: “I wanted to see what would happen to someone like Frannie making he...
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Only Americans Burn In Hell
“This chapter is a poorly fleshed-out fictional pretense to write about something that isn’t fictitious”. If an entire book could be summed up in one of its sentences then her...
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The Wych Elm
The Ivy House is the affectionate name bestowed on a grand familial home in a well to do part of Dublin. The only person residing there is Hugo, who, despite living on borrowe...
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The Wall
In some unspecified period in the near future the water levels around the world have risen catastrophically. All beaches have disappeared and the UK is “protected” by the Wall...
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The Flower Girls
The Flower Girls were the tabloid nicknames given to two young sisters who were involved in the kidnapping and killing of a toddler nineteen years ago. The eldest of them was ...
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My Sister, The Serial Killer
The first novel from this young Nigerian author has been pushed under the “hotly anticipated” banner and she doesn’t disappoint. It concerns two sisters living with their moth...
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Slow Motion Ghosts
After making his name writing Science Fiction novels such as ‘Vurt’ and ‘Pollen’, Jeff Noon’s first foray into the police procedural is lifted out of the ordinary by dint of t...
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Wrecked
This is the third book in the IQ series, IQ being the nickname of Isaiah Quintabe, a young black man living in LA who earns a crust by solving crimes. The Watson to his Holmes...
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The Italian Teacher
Tom Rachman - Bear Bavinsky is a (fictional) American artist in the mould of the great expressionists of the 1950s, feted alongside the likes of Jackson Pollock. And like Poll...
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Adèle
Leïla Sliming - On the face of it, you may think that Adèle has it all. A journalist living in Paris, her surgeon husband, Richard, is devoted to her and they have a young son...
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Oscar: A Life
Matthew Sturgis - Even if Oscar Wilde had led a mundane existence he would still be remembered today because of his sparklingly modern plays and iconoclastic essays. But it’s ...
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The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas
Daniel James - Ezra Maas is one of the most significant artists of the 20thcentury, winning a whole raft of awards and critical acclaim. An enigmatic figure he is often likene...
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Odd Socks: Quite Funny Poems
John Robert Brown - The redoubtable local publishers IRON Press continue to provide a platform for poets who might otherwise have fallen down the back of the settee and in Joh...
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