CHLOE DALTON Raising Hare. Reviewed by Ann Skea
Chloe Dalton’s memoir of raising an orphaned hare in the English countryside is both beautiful and unsentimental. Chloe Dalton never expected to raise a hare. In her professional life as a foreign policy specialist and political advisor, she spent her time in offices,...
ALAN HOLLINGHURST Our Evenings. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey
The Booker-winning author of The Line of Beauty delivers a novel about class, race – and Brexit. In his latest novel, Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst continues his exploration of outsider as insider, although in this novel his protagonist, Dave, has to contend with...
BENJAMIN MYERS Cuddy. Reviewed by Robert Goodman
Benjamin Myers’ new novel is a homage to his home city of Durham and its patron saint. Award-winning British author Benjamin Myers was born in the northern English city of Durham in 1976. This is a fact to keep in mind when coming to his latest novel Cuddy,...
TASHA SYLVA The Guest Room. Reviewed by Ann Skea
In Tasha Sylva’s debut novel a young woman obsessively investigates her sister’s murder … and her houseguests. ‘33-year-old woman found dead in a London park’ The woman was Tess’s sister, Rosie, and in her grief Tess has become obsessed with finding...
NICK HARKAWAY Titanium Noir. Reviewed by Robert Goodman
Nick Harkaway’s dystopian new novel features a classic noir detective. While it is always true to say genre is fluid, occasionally something magical can happen when crime fiction meets science fiction. This may be because the best crime fiction uses its tropes...
BENJAMIN MYERS The Perfect Golden Circle. Reviewed by Robert Goodman
Benjamin Myers’ new novel delves into 1980s Britain and the allure of crop circles. For those of us old enough to remember, there was a period in history when mysterious geometric shapes appeared in crops across the western world with increasing regularity....
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