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Review — 1 Sep 2021
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
A radio play, a trilogy of five (or six, depending on whether you count Eoin Colfer’s 2009 contribution to the series), a TV series, multiple comic books and stage shows…
Review — 3 Oct 2021
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Benny Oh has lost his father in a terrible accident. Shortly afterwards, something peculiar happens to the grief-stricken teenage boy: he starts to hear objects speaking. Snow globes, scissors, windowpanes…
Review — 3 Oct 2021
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Theo Byrne, a rising star in the field of astrobiology, has lost his wife, leaving him the sole parent to nine-year-old Robin. Robin is both a fascinating and a troubled…
Review — 31 Oct 2021
Devotion by Hannah Kent
Prussia, 1836: a small village of Old Lutherans is forced to practice their religion in secret or face persecution. Deliverance comes with the opportunity for settling in the new colony…
Review — 26 Apr 2021
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor
We start in peril. This is Antarctica; the weather can, and will, change without a moment’s notice. This is the first season working at the bottom of the earth for…
Review — 1 Jun 2021
Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber
Admit it. You’re a little bit curious. If a book, fiction or otherwise, offers you the secrets of happiness you’d want to know what it’s selling. Equipped with such a…
Review — 30 Mar 2021
Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley
‘And I’m just fed up with the hypocrisy. People have sex for loads of different reasons. And, well, we have sex for money.’
Precious didn’t ask to be the figurehead…
Review — 30 Mar 2021
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Kokoro doesn’t want to go back to school. After enduring painful bullying at the hands of her classmates, her whole body seems to rebel at the idea of returning to…
Review — 2 Mar 2021
Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic
Even after five years together the only time Luke and Anya are at ease in one another’s company is when they’re listening to true crime podcasts together. Driving from London…
Review — 29 Mar 2020
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
In 1596, a young boy named Hamnet died. About four years later, his father wrote the most famous play in English history: Hamlet. This is the story of that…
