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…
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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,…
As a late starter writer, but a life long reader, I have always held writers (particularly novelists) in ridiculously high esteem, assuming them to be children of greater gods, if…
Book Review – Traveling Sprinkler by Nicolson Baker The only other book of Nicolson Baker I have read was in 1993. It was Vox, and it made him briefly famous,…
Darkly funny, extraordinary tale about a South African living in LA who fears losing all that he loves IMPERFECT SOLO Steven Boykey Sidley Picador Africa MEYER appears to have it…
Book Review – Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill This is a startling book. It is startling in almost every interpretation of the word. It is startling because it is…
A life of blight and wry humour Steven Boykey Sidley turns a mid-life crisis into an internal adventure, writes Beverley Roos Muller MID-LIFE often arrives with the brassy blare of…