Pierre Sutcliffe
Pierre Sutcliffe is from Readings St Kilda
Review — 22 May 2024
James by Percival Everett
James by Percival Everett is narrated by Jim, the escaped enslaved man who accompanies Huck Finn when the two flee down the Mississippi River in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn…
Review — 20 May 2024
The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne
In the first few pages of The Friday Afternoon Club, the author drops the names of Jacqueline Bouvier, Admiral John Cain, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his future aunt Joan Didion…
Review — 20 May 2024
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter is a dreamlike novella that delves into the complexities of human life with an unsentimental and merciless gaze. Set against the backdrop of a…
Review — 3 Apr 2024
City in Ruins by Don Winslow
For the last 30 years, Don Winslow, one of the most interesting and creative American crime writers, has made the purchase of his latest book a very reliable and easy…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
Clear by Carys Davies
Set in Scotland in the 1840s during the Highland Clearances (when the land-owning gentry decided that it was more profitable to clear their land of tenant farmers and their families…
Review — 2 Nov 2023
Water by John Boyne
This is the first of a projected group of books to be followed by Fire, Earth and Air. The narrator is Vanessa Carvin, a woman fleeing an unknown…
Review — 2 Nov 2023
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
The opening chapter of this book is a beautifully modulated introduction to the life of philosophy professor and 71-year-old widower Sy Baumgartner. Sy roams the rooms of his brownstone, burning…
Review — 25 Sep 2023
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
Alice is a member of the Mohawk nation and a new mother living in Toronto with Steve, her loving, white, professor husband. Steve specialises in the study of her tribe…
Review — 31 Aug 2023
Ordinary Gods and Monsters by Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley is one of the most interesting and inventive writers in this country, in my extremely humble opinion. He began his publishing career with The Low Road, a…
Review — 30 May 2023
Half Deaf, Completely Mad by Tony Cohen with John Olson
As a wannabe hippy, young Tony Cohen found enough trouble with his school, parents and the law for his family to decide to help him find a job in the…
