Emirates Open Skies, April 2020 There’s a spectacular moment in Sir David Attenborough’s new film A Life On Our Planet where the camera tracks a herd of animals across a wide plain. It looks like […]
The Observer, March 2020 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo Penguin, £8.99, 464pp (paperback) What’s left to say about Bernardine Evaristo’s brilliant Booker-winning novel, other than it’s a shame it had to share the award with […]
Emirates Open Skies, March 2020 In Esi Edugyan’s 2011 novel Half Blood Blues, black jazz musician Hieronymous Falk is arrested and incarcerated in a German concentration camp. The follow-up, Washington Black, features the titular character […]
The National, March 2020 It’s a photograph that could have been taken anywhere in the world, and yet is intrinsically Kurdish. A man sits at his well-appointed desk in his business wear. Next to him […]
The Observer, February 2020 House of Trelawney Hannah Rothschild Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp368 Like Rothschild’s debut novel, The Improbability of Love, House of Trelawneywraps up a story of love and friendship in a gentle satire of […]