ALI SMITH Winter. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
Time and its ramifications of past and present and even a small look at the future are perhaps the main themes of Winter, with plenty of fun, wordplay and space in...
Read MoreANITA BROOKNER Hotel du Lac. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
Hotel du Lac is a small classic that won the 1984 Man Booker Prize for Anita Brookner. When I found Hotel du Lac recently on my shelves I was amazed to realise that it...
Read MoreHILARY MANTEL The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and Other Stories. Reviewed by Jeannette Delamoir
These stories infuse the everyday with the strange, the uncanny and an ever-present sense of threat. In those days, the doorbell didn’t ring often, and if it did I...
Read MoreIAN SHADWELL Slush Pile. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
This cautionary tale takes aim at the literary life. ‘I am not a normal person. I am a writer,’ declares Michael Ardenne, the antihero of Ian Shadwell’s takedown of...
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