Authors Justin David and Neil Bartlett reflect a range of experiences in these stories of gay life in London. For most of modern literature, the male homosexual is not a happy figure. He is burdened by the stigmata of degeneration; he is...
Contemporary Irish poet Doireann Ni Ghriofa explores the life and work of eighteen-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill. Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s prose debut A Ghost in the Throat is both intimate and scholarly, ranging across multiple...
The twelfth novel from British-Turkish writer Elif Shafak evokes the history of Cyprus in a story of love and grief. Once upon a memory, at the far end of the Mediterranean Sea, there lay an island so beautiful and blue that many travellers,...
As a single-volume history of the growth and development of Australian football, Australia’s Game has much to recommend it. When a book consists of 784 pages and 54 chapters, it’s a big book. But when it also contains 2517 endnotes and has a...
The new novel from Pulitzer-winner Louise Erdrich is both a story for our times and a loving tribute to bookshops. Two years on and the pandemic is starting to colonise literature. Louise Erdrich’s latest book The Sentence feels like it started as...
The second novel from the author of Fever of Animals begins with a family mystery and explores the appeal – and consequences – of joining a cult. ‘Parents are only there to be memories for their children …’ Joe, who narrates the first part of this...
