NRB readers’ favourites for 2021

NRB readers’ favourites for 2021

Which were the reviews you enjoyed the most this year? We’ve come up with the ten most popular reviews we’ve run this year, based on reader views. Inevitably it skews a little to reviews we ran earlier in the year (as there has been more time for readers to...
JOHN HUGHES The Dogs. Reviewed by Paul Anderson

JOHN HUGHES The Dogs. Reviewed by Paul Anderson

The new novel from award-winning writer John Hughes explores the transmission of trauma down the generations. Memory is a major theme in John Hughes’s corpus. The Dogs, his seventh book and fourth novel, reverberates with intergenerational family trauma and the ghosts...