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 […]
Man Utd’s treble-winning star Jonathan Greening speaks to Gulf News after Bilic sacking. December 2020 In the immediate aftermath of Slaven Bilic’s sacking from West Bromwich Albion this week, the reaction was almost exclusively of […]