Lisa Taddeo on her bestseller Three Women: ‘I thought I was writing a quiet little book’
The American creator Lisa Taddeo might want some morning meal. However, our server is ruining her. "We don't serve food...
Book Reviews
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Set in and around a Nigerian college, Femi Kayode's thrilling presentation, Lightseekers (Raven, £14.99), seems, by all accounts, to be...
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead review – parallel lives take flight
The early history of avionics is loaded with bold, interesting ladies: Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart are likely the most...
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross review – a magical Caribbean of the mind
Albeit the anecdotal archipelago of Popisho in Leone Ross' third novel is pervaded with a Caribbean reasonableness, it is a...
The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz review – on the run in Nazi Germany
There was a danger that the account of this book may overpower the story in the book – its starting...
The Rules of Revelation by Lisa McInerney review – whatever became of the unlikable lad?
Nothing raises your normal creator's pulse like the subject of agreeable characters. Since Amazon democratized the specialty of the book...
A River Called Time by Courttia Newland review – a vivid alternate reality
It addresses the keep TV actually has over our way of life that Courttia Newland, the writer of seven books...
The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore review – a darkly witty debut
There's men, and afterward there's kin." So comments one bored widow to another, a little way into The Manningtree Witches....
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan review – brilliantly strange
Jenni Fagan's savage 2012 presentation novel, The Panopticon, was striking for characters whose strength notwithstanding vagrancy and financial loss got...
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi review – a profound follow-up to Homegoing
Marianne Moore once proposed that writers and researchers work comparably, not just on the grounds that each will "squander exertion"...
