Books Editorial
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Pearl and other stories
Julia Darling - The novelist, poet and playwright Julia Darling was born in Winchester but moved to Newcastle in 1980. Her first novel ‘Crocodile Soup’ was long-listed for the...
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Middle England
Jonathan Coe - Jonathan Coe eviscerated Thatcherism in his 1994 satire ‘What a Carve Up!’ but for his latest novel he’s turned his hand to a rather trickier task: trying to ma...
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The Corset
Laura Purcell - Laura Purcell struck gothic gold with her debut novel ‘The Silent Companions’ and she’s also on fine form with her latest. Set in the mid-19thcentury she juggl...
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Paris Echo
Sebastian Faulks - Disaffected Moroccan teenager Tariq lives with his father and stepmother in Tangier. He decides to run away with the vague notion of tracing the roots of hi...
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That Summer Feeling
Mark Hopkinson - “I like books that ramble on, that are like someone talking to you or you’re hearing thoughts. When I meet someone or just see them around I always think: wha...
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Accidental Street Love
Richard Atkinson - Richard Atkinson can often be found banging out his work at poetry open mic slots around the region, and is part of the Scratch performance group. Charles B...
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Transcription
Kate Atkinson - Kate Atkinson seems incapable of writing a bad sentence, never mind a bad novel, and she’s on fine form with her latest in which she covers some of the same gr...
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A Ladder to the Sky
John Boyne - When renowned gentleman of letters Erich Ackermann takes a fancy to Maurice Swift, a waiter working in a hotel in Berlin, he tries every way he can to ingratiate ...
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Melmoth
Sarah Perry - Sarah Perry scored a huge hit with her last novel ‘The Essex Serpent’ set in a fictional English village circa the 1890s. Her latest takes place in modern day Pr...
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Normal People
Sally Rooney - With this, and her previous novel, ‘Conversations With Friends’, Sally Rooney appears to have cornered the market in people talking, and not talking, in rooms (...
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Washington Black
Esi Edugyan - The Canadian author Esi Edugyan scored a big hit with her previous novel, ‘Half Blood Blues’, which told the story of black jazz players in the Second World War....
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Never Anyone But You
Rupert Thompson - In Rupert Thompson’s latest novel he fictionalises the lives of two French women who meet when they are teenagers in the early part of the twentieth century....
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Our Friends in Berlin
Anthony Quinn - Anthony Quinn is never more at home than when he’s elbow deep in mid-20thcentury, cake-mix Britain, all turned-up trousers, hair oil and plucky, can-do gels. A...
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