Book review – Lessons by Ian McEwan © Steven Boykey Sidley I take back everything thing I said about this book. I said those things when I stuttered and stumbled…
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Book Review – -The Errors of Dr Browne by Mark Winkler © Steven Boykey Sidley Firstly, Mark Winkler is a witch. I know this for a fact, which I will…
Book Review – Antkind by Charlie Kaufman © Steven Boykey Sidley Charlie Kaufman is the celebrated and award-winning screenwriter of wildly offbeat cult-favorite films – Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal…
Book review – The Echo Chamber by John Boyne © Steven Boykey Sidley One of the least reliable descriptions of a book is ‘screamingly funny’. I have launched into many…
Book Review – Inside Story – A Novel, by Martin Amis © Steven Boykey SIdley This book is a quandary. One the one hand (and I state this up front…
Book Review – Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner © Steven Boykey SIdley Eish. What a bludgeon of a book. This much anticipated novel was written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner,…
One of the challenges in reviewing the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction is that it has done exactly that – won one of two most prestigious prizes in…
Book Review – Florida by Lauren Groff Steven Boykey Sidley If you put a gun to my head and asked – best novel in the last decade –…
A review – Caliphate, a New York Times podcast Moving from my usual book reviews to a new media, I must talk about Caliphate, an NYT podcast, similarly feted…
Book Review – Levels of Life by Julian Barnes © Steven Boykey SIdley One of the great good fortunes of my life is that I have never been visited by…