A sympathetic and warts-and-all depiction of love, loss and family.
Category: Reviews
Review: The Story Of A New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
This second instalment of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet deepens and complicates the themes of the first.
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.