Book Reviews

It was quite a surprise, on finishing Hotel du Lac, to learn that it was probably set around the time it was …

Rose Tremain is a writer who has an impressive trunk of material. In the collection of short stories, The American Lover, she …

There could be many potential answers to the question, ‘What is Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook about?’ Almost like a literary Rorschach …

Despite the almost universal outpouring of joy over Helen Sedgwick’s tale of love and loss across the centuries and generations of a …

Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers was given to me by a friend who understands I have a fixation on …

Children have a fixation with the downright gruesome. I found this out when I recently re-discovered a picture book by Heinrich Hoffman …

My review of How to Travel Without Seeing by Andres Neuman is now up at Minor Literature[s]. A break-neck record of musings, …

With Secrets of the Sea House, Elisabeth Gifford has crafted a tale of survival. Surviving the most terrible events and moving through …

There are few writers whose work I read avidly as a teen that I can still enjoy something new from, so the pleasure of …

I must begin this Chaos and Caliphate review by saying that it is not always easy to read the book. Patrick Cockburn’s …