Metro, October 2022 Growing up amid a backdrop of political unrest and Western pop music in 1980s Karachi, Zahra and Maryam certainly have a clearly defined vision of their adult lives. Of marriage, children, success […]
Metro, September 2022 After the spectacular success of Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell returns to the 16th century for another atmospheric tale of historical women kicking against social and sexual constructs. This time we’re dropped into the […]
Metro, August 2022 Set in the years leading up to Hollywood’s reckoning with sexism, harassment and abuse that came with 2017’s #MeToo, the moment Isabel Kaplan’s young protagonist becomes the assistant to a young studio […]
An erudite Italian memoir, a suspenseful Chornobyl-set thriller, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s moving essay about the death of her father. The Observer, September 2022 Dandelions Thea Lenarduzzi Fitzcarraldo Editions, £12.99, pp288 This eloquent combination of family […]
Colson Whitehead on a heist gone wrong; a revisionary study of the footballing Charltons; and Donal Wilson’s latest fictional vignette of small-town Ireland. The Observer, August 2022 Harlem Shuffle Colson WhiteheadLittle, Brown, £8.99, pp336 (paperback) […]