An all-too-human portrayal of the people who live on the land.
Review: The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai
A heaving, seething, raging novel full of life’s absurdities.
Review: A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
A classic novel of travel and Romance.
Review: Sex And Vanity by Kevin Kwan
A fizzy adaptation of E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View.
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: The Dawn Of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
A big history of people that demolishes the myth of progress.
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.
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