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,…
Book review – Theo & Flora by Mark Winkler © Steven Boykey SIdley Theo & Flora, a most unusual novel of love’s hopes and disappointments, past and present, is…
Book review – French Exit by Patrick de Witt © Steven Boykey SIdley A couple of years ago, I met Canadian novelist Patrick de Witt at a bar at the…
Ian McEwan rates as one of my absolute favourite novelists who disappoints me more often than any of my other absolute favourite novelists. I read his novel Saturday when…
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…