by NRB | 3 Feb 2022 | Fiction |
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, pilgrims, crusaders and...
by NRB | 17 Aug 2021 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
The new crime novel from the author of You Don’t Know Me explores the life of a London street-dweller in a confounding situation. What can you do if you witnessed a murder but the police will not believe you? They have no report of anyone missing, they haven’t...
by NRB | 6 Apr 2021 | Fiction |
Olivia Sudjic’s second novel ranges from London to Sarajevo and explores displacement, exile, and refuge. Too often, the quotations an author chooses to preface their book seem to be put there to puzzle the reader. The two quotations chosen by Olivia Sudjic for...
by NRB | 1 Dec 2020 | Fiction |
Tessa Hadley’s latest novel is one to savour as she examines four London lives with subtlety and elegant prose. In the London of Tess Hadley’s novel, everything inside her protagonists’ houses is cool, well placed and well maintained. It is the world outside...
by NRB | 18 Jul 2019 | Fiction |
Linda Grant’s eighth novel explores the consequences of Brexit-era nationalism on the rich multicultural traditions of London. There are so many novels about London. A massive, diverse city, much like New York it provides endless fodder for novelists. It is also...
by NRB | 3 Oct 2013 | Fiction, SFF |
The Bone Season offers a parallel future of clairvoyants and alien races in a complex and vibrant thriller. This is a very grim story threaded with startlingly good flashes of originality. That is not to say that brave young women, invading aliens and mind...
by NRB | 10 Sep 2012 | Fiction |
The unlikely story of 1920s lady missionaries in exotic Kashgar entwines with the tale of a modern woman in contemporary London. Evangeline English has inveigled her way onto a 1923 missionary expedition, led by the enigmatic Millicent, to explore the mysterious East...
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KATHERINE WILES No Autographs Please. Reviewed by Sally Nimon2 October 2024Katherine Wiles’ life as a professional opera singer seems glossed with [ … ]
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ALINA BELLCHAMBERS The Order of Masks. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley26 September 2024Spies, magic, intrigue, and the human cost of an expanding empire all feature [ … ]