Category: Review
“Might have benefitted from a bit more clarity” – Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
“Hovering-slightly-above-terra-firma” – The Book of Newcastle
“Immensely readable” – Actress by Anne Enright
“A troubling, resonant book” – Bad Island by Stanley Donwood
“A machine for creating empathy” – American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
“No mere flirtation with magic realism” – Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
“A Marmite kind of book” – Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott
“Maybe it’s all great heaps of horseshit” – Hark by Sam Lipsyte
“A damn fine read” – Music, Love, Drugs, War by Geraldine Quigley
“An intriguing mediation” – How Pale the Winter Has Made Us by Adam Scovell
“A softly spoken yet piercing history lesson” – Another Planet by Tracey Thorn
“A thoughtful, questioning novel” – A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
“It’s sweet and it’s funny” – Baby by Philiippa Rice
“Raymond Chandler reincarnated” – Muscle by Alan Trotter
“Seamless and riveting” – Real Life by Adeline Dieudonne
“Precise and succinct” – War Doctor by David Notts
“A remarkable novel ” – Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli #WomensPrize2019
“As enigmatic as the woman it celebrates” – The Doll by Ismail Kadare
“It’s a mixed bag, but when it’s good, it’s very, very good” – Cat Person and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian
“Utopias will proliferate again” – Utopia: The History of an Idea by Gregory Claeys
“Smart and intellectually compelling” – Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
“An incredibly well-written, funny, and moving novel” – The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
“An accomplished debut” – The Island Child by Molly Aitken
“A dark confection” – Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds
“The benefit of the doubt” – Braised Pork by An Yu
“Mad as a box of frogs” – Agency by William Gibson
“A slow burn” – Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
“An outlandish, take-no-prisoners satire” – The Hungry and the Fat by Timur Vermes
