Review: Companion Piece by Ali Smith

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

Review: Take Care by Eunice Andrada

Poetry that investigates ‘taking’ in all its forms.

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

Review: Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam

A gleefully silly horror-comedy of the end of the world.

Review: Tilt by Kate Lilley

Poems that are all about the hidden things.

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: Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl

A gripping and exhausting, funny and despairing, and completely compelling account of living with grief.

Review: The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams

A novel about who defines the words that define us.

Review: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

A safari through time with an urgent message about the future.

Review: The Promise by Damon Galgut

A story of an Afrikaner family whose fortunes mirror that of post-apartheid South Africa.