Category: Review
“Packs quite the punch” – Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (trans. Elisabeth Jaquette)
“Compelling and tense” – Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
“More of a simmer situation” – The Van Apfel Girls are Gone by Felicity McLean
“Becalming, without ever being boring” – The Seafarers by Stephen Rutt
“Lies on the right side of excellent” – Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alazayat
“It’s funny” – The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
“Compact and engaging” – The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
“Could well be a great lost Bukowski masterpiece” – Sing Backwards & Weep by Mark Lanegan
“Very brave and frail and hopeful” – We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time by AL Kennedy
“Like whipped egg whites that have been made using gone off eggs” – Magic Mobile by Michael Frayn
“Continues to twist and mutate as it goes” – Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin (trans. by Megan McDowell)
“Hovering in the shadow of The Outsider” – If It Bleeds by Stephen King
“An enjoyable introduction” – The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Condé (translated by Richard Philcox)
“You do not debate your hunger” – Malicroix by Henri Bosco (translated from the French by Joyce Zonana)
“Not for everyone” – A Cat’s Cradle by Carly Rheilan
“A collection to savour and reread” – The Boat and Other Stories by Nam Le
“A beguiling novel” – Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
“Has about it the warmth and wisdom of late period William Trevor” – Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford
“A conversation about the semantics of emotion” – Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
” I savoured this transcendent book” – The Heavens by Sandra Newman
“Fast-paced, funny, and believable” – Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher
“It’s a showcase piece” – Home Remedies: Stories by Xuan Juliana Wang
“Only the world remains, only time endures” – Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell
“Provoking and enlightening ” – The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
“Comparatively very straight” – Night Boat To Tangier by Kevin Barry
“A fairly lightweight affair” – The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott
“A ragged, hodge-podge of rants and lamentations” – A Life Without End by Frederic Beigbeder, (translated by Frank Wynne)
“All the more resonant” – Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass
