Books Editorial
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A Million Drops
Victor del Arbol - This lengthy literary thriller is a real epic, which begins in Barcelona circa 2002 with Gonzalo Gil, a going-through-the-motions lawyer disaffected with bo...
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Ironopolis
Glen James Brown - This ambitious debut novel from Durham born author Glen James Brown is set on Teesside and focuses on the Burn council estate, which is in the process of be...
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Tales from the Leaking Boot
Matt Black - Matt Black is a former Derbyshire Poet Laureate and while performing at the Cheltenham Literature Festival a few years back he got into conversation with Thom the...
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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
David Cannadine - Any 19th century history of the United Kingdom must look outwards towards the rest of the world - with the UK being responsible for, at one point, 40% of all...
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The House
Simon Lelic - This thriller – which has just come out in paperback – is about a young London couple, Jack and Syd, who move into what seems like their dream home. They’ve got ...
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
Yannis Varoufaskis - Even if you’re well versed in the ins and outs of economic theory, you’ll still find much to enjoy in Yanis Varoufakis’ punchy, 200-page answer to his 14-...
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The Prince and the Puppy
Jon Ahmad - I was moved by the story behind this fable as related in the foreword. It gives us a potted biography of Bashir Ahmad, a Muslim who was born in a village in India ...
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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
PD James - If you’re on the hunt for a superior stocking filler for the crime-lit loving person in your life, then step right up. This terrific collection of short tales, from...
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Devil’s Day
Andrew Michael Hurley - Andrew Michael Hurley ran a few fingers up a few spines with his unsettling debut novel The Loney in 2016, and he’s at it again with his latest slice o...
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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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