Books Editorial
-
Breaking Mum and Dad: The Insider's Guide to Parenting Anxiety
Anna Williamson - If I weren’t parenting my own adorable mini-me of carnage, I would have laughed out loud at the hilarity of this book. After reading it however, my own ball ...
-
All The Beautiful Lies
Peter Swanson - In his three previous books Peter Swanson has demonstrated a deft hand in writing crime novels that are plotted with a clockwork like intricacy, his characters...
-
Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday - A character towards the end of this debut novel declares: “We have very little choice other than to spend our waking hours trying to sort out and make sense of...
-
Sunburn
Laura Lippman - After a day at the beach with her husband and young child Polly surreptitiously up sticks, leaving them both behind, to disappear somewhere non-descript. She w...
-
Let Go My Hand
Edward Docx - There’s a quote from author Paul Murray (“Tremendously moving, fiercely intelligent and very, very funny”) on the back of Edward Docx’s latest – which is just ou...
-
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems
Johnny Cash - “We’re in the church-house kneeling down / We’re in the subways underground / We’re in the bars and on the street / We drive a truck, we walk a beat / We’re in t...
-
I Am Not A Number
Alex Cox - It was the American comedian Ernie Kovacs who said: “Television is a medium, so called because it’s neither rare nor well done.” True enough, but a TV series that c...
-
Righteous: An IQ Novel
Joe Ide - IQ is Isaiah Quintabe, a twenty-something problem solver/investigator from South Central LA, who first came to light in the novel IQ, which saw him embroiled in a hi...
-
The Woman in the Window
AJ Finn - 38 year-old Anna Fox lives alone in her house in New York City. She is estranged from her family and her agoraphobia has made her something of a recluse. She spends ...
-
Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff - Set during the Jim Crow era in the US (when segregation between black and white people was being enforced) Matt Ruff’s novel begins in 1954 with African American s...
-
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Imogen Hermes Gowar - This promising debut novel takes us back to London circa 1785 when Jonah Hancock, a merchant, loses a ship but acquires what he believes is a mermaid (de...
-
Grandville: Force Majeure
Bryan Talbot - The fifth, and final, volume of Bryan Talbot’s steampunk/alternative reality/detective/all-animal series of graphic novels had me at the first page. Well, even ...
-
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell - If you’re still on the hunt for a nice and spooky winter tale, then step right up. The Silent Companions opens in 1866 when we first meet Elsie Bainbridge insi...
Sign Up to Little Crack
Thanks!
You're now signed up
Close