A sweeping, grandiose tale of love and war.
Tag: UK
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.
Review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
There’s something haunted and occult about this otherwise godly classic.
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.
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