An all-too-human portrayal of the people who live on the land.
Tag: Contemporary
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: 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: Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
A gleefully silly horror-comedy of the end of the world.
Review: Bodies Of Light by Jennifer Down
A novel of surviving extraordinary trials.
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: The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams
A novel about who defines the words that define us.
Review: The Promise by Damon Galgut
A story of an Afrikaner family whose fortunes mirror that of post-apartheid South Africa.
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