Oliver Driscoll
Oliver Driscoll is a former Readings Doncaster bookseller
Review — 6 Sep 2021
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
Until recently, the only book I’d read by Colm Tóibín was his excellent nonfiction work on the fathers of Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to…
Review — 25 Feb 2019
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
Carrie Tiffany writes compact but expansive novels. Among other prizes, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, while Mateship with Birds won the inaugural…
Blog post — 20 Apr 2020
Meet the bookseller with Oliver Driscoll
Oliver Driscoll works as a bookseller at Readings Doncaster and we’re delighted he has also just released his first book! I Don’t Know How That Happened is a funny and…
Review — 20 Aug 2017
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard has this way of taking a phenomenon that otherwise seems spent – whether it be kinds of interactions or relationships, or the human face, or an object…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover
The Last Man in Europe, the debut novel from political speechwriter and academic Dennis Glover, follows the life of George Orwell, from 1936 when he was finishing his underrated…
Review — 29 May 2017
Anaesthesia by Kate Cole-Adams
It varies, but if you’re sinking into a general anaesthetic, a number of things are happening, or could be happening. Your consciousness (whatever that is) is being switched off (whatever…
Review — 26 Apr 2017
Between Them by Richard Ford
Richard Ford is the only child of older parents. Before he was born, his parents spent years driving around the South of the US for his father’s job, selling industrial…
Review — 26 Feb 2017
The Restorer by Michael Sala
The Restorer is often surprisingly beautiful, at times lulling us into quiet coastal domesticity or the coming-of-age story of Freya, the daughter of the family the novel is centred around…
