Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.
Tag: Novel
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: White Noise by Don DeLillo
A bracing dose of retro-strangeness.
Review: Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy
Brings the excitement and adventure of living through the polar night to life.
Review: Marlo by Jay Carmichael
An evocative portrayal of queer life under oppression.
Best books I’ve read 2022
My favourite reads of the year.
Review: Tomb Of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
An epic novel that pushes at the boundedness of things.
Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.
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