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Book Review: Truth in Advertising
Next time you see one of those TV adverts featuring cute babies waddling about in their disposable nappies, spare a thought for the people behind that 30 seconds of film. Vast quantities of blood,...
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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw: Review
It’s hard to imagine a more spectacular cityscape than the one that has thrust skywards in China’s second largest city over the last few decades. The result is a fantastical array of glass and steel...
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Review: Harvest by Jim Crace
…. rain or shine, the earth abides, the land endures, the soil will persevere for ever and a day. That quote from Jim Crace’s latest book Harvest might lull you into thinking this novel is a homage to...
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Atkinson’s Life after Life Runs out of Breath
It took three months for my name to get to the top of the library waiting list for Kate Atkinson‘s Life after Life. Every day that elapsed brought another review in the blogosphere that lauded this...
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Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey: Review
Sometimes reviewers’ quotes on the cover of a book do an great injustice to the novel and to the author. On the back of my copy of Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey, is a comment by The Booklist...
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Cover of the US edition At first Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves seemed a fairly straight forward story about family love and the emotional consequences of the loss of a...
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Crystal ball gazing for Booker prize 2015
Tomorrow sees the announcement of the Man Booker Prize longlist for 2015. I was hesitating from making some predictions of what we might see since a) my previous attempts at anticipating the winners...
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All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
In All Our Names, Dinaw Mengestu examines two familiar pillars of love and conflict but surrounds them with an exploration of a third, equally powerful, theme of identity. Set some time in the 1970s,...
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Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
Conspiracy theorists will love it. Readers who enjoy pacy satire will love it. Bibliophiles with a penchant for fiction-fact blended narratives will love it. Umberto Eco’s seventh novel Numero Uno is...
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