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Tag: British

Review: The Orphan Gunner by Sara Knox

This queer WWII novel soars.

Australian, British, Classics, Fiction, Historical, lesbian, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, War, World War II

Review: August Blue by Deborah Levy

A breezy but potent novel of doublings and troublings.

British, Contemporary, Deborah Levy, Europe, Fiction, Novel

Review: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Taught and supple as leather, menacing and poignant.

British, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Narnia, Philip Pulman’s multiverse, David Mitchell’s “metanovel”, Hogwarts … English writing is full of people disappearing through portals into other … More

British, Fiction, Novel, Speculative

Review: Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy concisely summarises what makes her own writing so compelling.

British, Female writers, Memoir, Nonfiction, South Africa, UK

Review: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota

A slight but full novel set in 1920s and 1990s Punjab.

1920s, British, Contemporary, Fiction, India, Novel, Racism, UK

Review: The Mermaid Of Black Conch by Monique Roffey

A fish-out-of-water tale that becomes something stranger.

British, Caribbean, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel

Review: Light by Eva Figes

A masterful, stroll-around-a-garden novella.

Art, British, Classics, Female writers, Fiction, France, Novella, Painting

Review: Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez

A story of growing up black and queer in the UK.

Black writers, British, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, queer, Writers of colour

Review: The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again by M. John Harrison

A dense and watery novel about the madness of searching for meaning in our mad times.

British, Contemporary, Fiction, Goldsmiths Prize, Novel, UK

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