Category: Review
“This is it” – Last Stories by William Trevor
“Nuanced and particular, moving and sweet” – Alone by Chaboute
“Stands shoulder to shoulder with his best” – The Outsider by Stephen King
“The best of his career so far” – The Drunken Sailor by Nick Hayes
“[An] intensely human story, told by an undisputed master” – Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah
“It’s not entirely a success” – New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
“If this doesn’t put Ben Myers on everyone’s radar…” – Under the Rock by Benjamin Myers
“Personal, political, analytical” – One Way and Another by Adam Phillips
“Dissections, preserved body parts, and penis trees” – Medieval Bodies by Jack Hartnell
“Diversions. Pop wisdom. Folksiness” – Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon
“Straining to be profound” – Mere Chances by Veronika Simoniti
“This will more than tide us over until we get our hands on Killing Commendatore” – Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
“Feels like an unfortunate step backwards – Safe by Ryan Gattis
“If you liked The Death of Stalin…” – The Zoo by Christopher Wilson
“A powerful debut” – American War by Omar El Akkad
“Attention grabbing” – Problems by Jade Sharma
“Infused with a sense of humanity” – Shapeshifters by Gavin Francis
“The badge of sound national orthodoxy” – The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien
“Somewhat problematic” – Sleeping Beauties by Owen King and Stephen King
“Falls flat” – The Answers by Catherine Lacey
“Innovative, piercing fiction” – Sight by Jesse Greengrass
‘Life is hard but not so hard that you can’t find some reason to go on’ – Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
‘Comes with a guarantee of great prose’ – The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
“Imbued with warmth and wisdom” – Between Them by Richard Ford
“It’s huge, it’s exciting, it’s wondrous” – The Overstory by Richard Powers
“The good is possible” – Census by Jesse Ball
“Gets off to a slow start” – One Way by SJ Morden
“Dense but fascinating” – Behave by Robert Sapolsky
