Books Editorial
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The Future Won’t Be Long: A Novel
Jarret Kobek - Jarret Kobek hovered onto a lot of cultural radars with last year’s I Hate the Internet: A Novel – set in a San Francisco hollowed out by tech money, greed and ...
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Portrait of a Murderer
Anne Meredith - This is the fiftieth in the British Library Crime Classics run of novels, which began in 2014 with the unexpected Christmas hit Mystery in White. The series ha...
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Taking Back The Underground
Steven Storrie - This is the second collection of poems from Steven Storrie (Middlesbrough born, now based in Newcastle) and it’s as hard hitting as the chap on the front cove...
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Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan pulled off all manner of stylistic fireworks with her (excellent) 2010 novel Welcome to the Goon Squad, but her latest – save for a bit of timeline chopping – is...
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My Absolute Darling
This debut novel has been winning rare praise and with little wonder. Set on the Mendocino Coast in modern day California it tells the story of 14-year-old girl Turtle Alvestr...
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The Sparsholt Affair
The Sparsholt Affair in Alan Hollinghurst’s latest, decades spanning, novel, takes place in the 1960s and involves a gay affair between World War II hero David Sparsholt, his ...
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Sugar Money
There was much intrigue at the heart of Jane Harris’ previous two novels - The Observations and Gillespie and I (both excellent) – which were both set in the 19th century. For...
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Lord of the Dead
The second novel from local author Richard Rippon begins with the mutilated body of a woman being discovered in Allendale, Northumberland. On the case are the local force who ...
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An Innocent Eye: Jimmy Forsyth
Anthony Flowers, Tyne Bridge Publishing, £10. Mainly portraits from the late 50s/early 60s, the subjects pose on the cobbled streets with a natural ease, Forsyth achieving a r...
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Book of the Month: Big Brother (July)
Lionel Shriver, HarperCollins, £16.99. Shriver struck a discordant family chord with the Orange Prize scooping “We Need To Talk About Kevin” and with her latest novel she is o...
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The Gothic King: A Biography of Henry III
John Paul Davis, Peter Owen Publishers, £17.99. Henry III doesn’t get much box office when it comes to the biographical books stakes, but his reign (1216-1272) was an importan...
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Unique But Similar: The Prisoner Compared
Andrew K. Shenton, Indepenpress Publication, £8.99. The TV series The Prisoner is perhaps the most enigmatic ever shown on primetime British TV and since its first screening i...
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The Dedalus Book of Vodka
Geoffrey Elborn, Dedalus, £15. After alcohol prohibition ended in Russia (it ran from the beginning of the First World War until 1924) the populace returned to vodka with gust...
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