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…
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Book Review – Milkman by Anna Burns (winner of the Booker Prize 2018) © Steven Boykey SIdley On numerous occasions since I was a pubescent tyke I have attempted to…
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…
Book Review – Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo Richard Russo sits pretty much at the apex of American literature. Much beloved, Pulitzer-garlanded and graced with a 20 year history of…
Book Review – The Safest Place You Know by Mark Winkler This is an astonishing South African novel. Some time ago I reviewed Winkler’s Wasted, which was a disturbing pleasure…
Book Review – Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer There is a sub-sub genre of American literature, a shelf labelled the American Jewish Experience. As short as this…
Book Review – Nutshell by Ian McEwan After panting and wheezing my way though a couple of doorstop books (not all of which did their weight justice), I was relieved…
Book Review – Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff A short while ago I posted a picture of my holiday reads, this novel among them. I got an equal number…
Book Review – Midwinter by Fiona Melrose It is the onslaught of the literary festival season here, and as a result, I have a unusually large pile of books to…