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…
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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…
Book review – & Sons by David Gilbert The first thing that announces this book is the cover, itself almost worth the price. It is an utterly arresting shot of…
Book Review – The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis I while ago I posted a little missive about having to shed books that had outbred our groaning bookshelves. I spoke about…
Book review – Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem Some many years ago we had a New York visitor from the literary world (who later won a Pulitzer Prize – long…
Review – F by Daniel Kehlmann I have been trawling lists again. Last year it was the Booker Longlist, which I attacked with unseemly optimism and basically fizzled after about…
If I had to list my 10 best books of the last year or so, the following would emphatically be on it, probably near the front – Ben Fountain (Billy…