Category: Review
” I savoured this transcendent book” – The Heavens by Sandra Newman
“It’s a gentler read” – Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
“A multivocal interrogation” – Common People, ed. Kit de Waal
“A bleak story, told in elegant, poetic prose” – In the Shadow of Wolves by Alvydas Šlepikas
“Thoughtful perspectives” – Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
‘Raw myth’ – Ragnarök by AS Byatt
“Compelling and quotable ” – A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
“It’s all one story, you see” – This Storm by James Ellroy
“Powerful” – House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma #IDTP2019, #Folio_Prize, #orwellprize, #estwa
“The first lesser deWitt” – French Exit by Patrick deWitt
“Nuanced social critique” – Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss #WomensPrize2019
“A novel of great depth” – The Summer House, by Philip Teir (tr. Tina Nunnally)
“I’ve waiting to read this novel for nearly 50 years” – Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman
“Withdraw… with a questing mind” – Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth
“An evocative portrait of a marriage” – A Long Island Story by Rick Gekoski
“Not her strongest collection” – Days of Awe by AM Homes
“As accessible to the uninitiated as it is to the uber fan” – The Holy Bible (33 1/3) by David Evans
“This is it” – Last Stories by William Trevor
“No more free lunch” – Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
“I missed the colour” – O Josephine! by Jason
“Confoundingly beautiful” – Murmur by Will Eaves #Rathbones_Folio #WBP2019
“Everything has been accelerated and dream-like” – An interview with Joanne Ramos, author of The Farm
“A deeply political book” – China Dream by Ma Jian
“Contemporary empathy” – The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
“An unconventional summer beach read” – Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly #Rathbones_Folio
“Winton gets better and better” – The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
“This is Cairo” – The Book of Cairo, ed. Raph Cormack
“An experience quite apart from the usual” – The Cloven by B Catling
