Review: Passionate Friends by Sylvia Martin

A warm and erudite biography of love between to women in the early 20th century.

Review: An Exciting And Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rossa

Stories that illuminate the condition of the modern world.

Review: Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

A sympathetic and warts-and-all depiction of love, loss and family.

Review: Companion Piece by Ali Smith

A fittingly grim and anxious search for meaning in our anxious and grim times.

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

Review: Bodies Of Light by Jennifer Down

A novel of surviving extraordinary trials.

Review: Tilt by Kate Lilley

Poems that are all about the hidden things.

Review: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

A contained and seething study of madness and familial obligation.

Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr

A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.

Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.