The National, January 2021 A new year always brings with it the excitement of literary superstars returning with new books – and 2021 is no different, with the arrival of novels by Jhumpa Lahiri and Kazuo Ishiguro – but […]
An elderly woman struggles to make sense of her past; the gripping story of an Arctic explorer; and a humane novel about an ‘illegal alien’. The Observer, January 2021 Gratitude Delphine de Vigan Bloomsbury, £14.99, […]
The year’s best works, a list dominated by dark stories. The National, December 2020 One of the few benefits of living through a pandemic is that we suddenly had a lot more time to read books – […]
The collection shares the Covid-19 experiences of novelists, poets, historians, academics and physicians. The National, December 2020 When Meghan O’Rourke, editor of a powerful new collection of “dispatches from life under lockdown”, has to stop our Zoom […]
The National, November 2020. When the end of the world as we know it comes about in Rumaan Alam’s gripping third novel, Leave the World Behind, the two families brought together in the indulgent surroundings of […]