A juicy domestic horror.
Tag: Contemporary
Review: Little Plum by Laura McPhee-Browne
A beautiful and tender novel of becoming a mother.
Review: Shirley by Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.
Review: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
Taught and supple as leather, menacing and poignant.
Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
A sweeping, grandiose tale of love and war.
Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Feye Lethem)
A short, elemental novel pulsing with the rhythms of time.
Review: Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson
I screamed, I cackled, I winced my way through these delicious short stories.
Best books I’ve read 2022
My favourite reads of the year.
Review: Vā (edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young
A rich series of stories and poems from the Pacific Ocean.
Review: Tomb Of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
An epic novel that pushes at the boundedness of things.
