The Observer, October 2015 It sounds an intriguing idea. Josh Spero, writer, magazine editor and classics buff, tracks down previous owners of the secondhand books he owns. In between finding out what these actors, teachers and […]
The Observer, September 2015 When a chapter in a memoir opens with “I recall the date I almost started the Third World War”, it’s fair to say one expects to settle into a rollicking story […]
The Observer, June 2015 Rachel Johnson says this is the third and final volume of the “Notting Hell” trilogy, her gentle satire of the “haves and have yachts” who flounce around W11 in their Range Rover […]
The Observer, June 2015 When David Nicholls started talking about the eagerly awaited follow-up to the phenomenon that was One Day, he admitted Us was a sequel of sorts. Not literally – Us isn’t “what Dexter did next” – but there’s certainly […]
There’s a lot to admire in the ambition of War of the Encyclopaedists, a collaborative novel set during the occupation of Iraq from MFA graduate Christopher Robinson and platoon leader Gavin Kovite. It nails both the pathetic pretence […]