A clever, moving lockdown journal, an inspirational hymn to older runners and an insightful analysis of our volatile consumer economy. The Observer, January 2023 Toby LittGalley Beggar, £10.99, pp400 One of the great online reading […]
The Observer, November 22 Islands by Mark Easton Early in Easton’s thoughtful exploration of the personal and political boundaries shorelines have thrown up across time, the BBC Home Editor introduces us to his muse. It’s […]
A visual and verbal map of Britain’s stories; a critique of cricket’s state of play; and a moving Arabic tale of where memory and identity meet. The Observer, May 22 Storyland: A New Mythology of […]
Embracing the twists and turns of everyday American life, the author’s latest short story collection is playful, gripping and disturbing. The Observer, March 22 Joyce Carol Oates’s multitudinous collections are repeatedly subtitled “tales of suspense” […]
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, […]