Review: Who Was That Man? by Neil Bartlett

Searching for origins.

Review: Alec by William di Canzio

A sexy flip of E. M. Forster’s illicit queer romance.

Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

A sweeping, grandiose tale of love and war.

Review: Modern Nature by Derek Jarman

Sex, death, life, art — this diary about a garden has it all.

Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.

Review: Companion Piece by Ali Smith

A fittingly grim and anxious search for meaning in our anxious and grim times.

Review: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

A contained and seething study of madness and familial obligation.

Review: Permafrost by SJ Norman

A collection of haunted stories that unsettle like the melting permafrost of the title.

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

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

Review: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota

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