The National, March 2018 A radiant Malala Yousafzai is enveloped by a large pink flower, the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner depicted at a lectern standing up for the right of girls to go to […]
The National, March 2018 When Philip Hensher was a child his family would set off for English holidays at 5am, his mother packing a camping stove and frying pan so they could stop at a […]
The Observer, February 2018 There’s a quiet moment in Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot – one of the more ambitious stories in Daniel Alarcón’s memorable new collection – when Hank, who is splitting up with […]
The Observer, March 2018 “Whatever destiny may be, it resides in the mountains that tower over us,” muses Pietro, the pensive 11-year-old narrator of The Eight Mountains, as he begins a long coming-of-age journey in […]
The Observer, July 2018 The set-up to Gerard Woodward’s unsettling new novel has all the creeping sense of unease one might find in a chilling horror movie. Breezing into Arnold’s comfortable, writerly and happy domestic […]