Book review – The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis This is a difficult book for me to review. Firstly, I am a hopeless Amis groupie. I can think of…
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Book Review – Let Me Be Frank With You – Richard Ford This is fourth book in what was originally a completed trilogy by Ford – three iconic and truly…
Ah, where to start on this entangled, undisciplined, dissonant, amazing carnivore of a book? A ragged, shredded, broken-toothed affair, a story of Australia related by a melange of unpredictable and…
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…
A number of people have asked why I always write good reviews, never bad ones. The reason is simple – I only review books that I like. I stay silent…
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…