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…
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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…
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…
Book Review – Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Steven Boykey Sidley I have always had a irrational distaste for books written entirely in a deep vernacular, not…
Book Review – The Nix by Nathan Hill Steven Boykey Sidley Every year I try to read at least one door stop. 500 pages or more. The last few years…
One of the genres I generally avoid is the childhood memoir of trauma and pain. Not because it doesn’t interest me, but because of the grinding repetitiveness of abusive, neglectful,…
E.L. Doctorow died yesterday. As a teenager, I had been happily snacking my way through fine mid-level fiction from Alex Haley and James Michener when I stumbled upon Doctorow’s Ragtime….