Deborah Crabtree
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Review — 26 Oct 2015
Slade House by David Mitchell
Slade House came into being on twitter. A short 280-tweet story formed and from there Mitchell found his way into his latest novel. Slade House is a short novel and…
Review — 26 Oct 2014
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Peter, a man of faith, is sent on a mission to share the Bible and its teachings with an alien race of beings. Beatrice, his wife, must stay behind in…
Review — 28 Apr 2014
Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman
An art nouveau style pendant, a peacock in hues of purple, green and white, is central to Love and Treasure, the latest novel by Ayelet Waldman. This simple device…
Review — 29 Jan 2014
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White
Writers writing in Paris – Genet, Proust and Rimbaud – are who attracted me to Inside a Pearl and while touched upon they appear infrequently within the pages of the…
Review — 31 Jan 2014
The Visitors by Rebecca Mascull
The ghost story has been rattling the chains of literary history for centuries, with the likes of Shakespeare, Dickens, Poe, and Henry James (among many others) all experimenting with the…
Review — 21 Nov 2013
Dead Interviews edited by Dan Crowe
The idea of talking with the dead as a form of literary conceit has been with us for centuries. Dan Crowe proffers Dialogues of the Dead by Lucian of Samosata…
Review — 26 Mar 2013
The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
Myths, folk and fairytales don’t always lend themselves well to renovation, yet they frequently inspire authors to put their own mark on a well-read story, twisting the conventions into a…