ALI SMITH Winter. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson

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 between. Ali Smith has planned a suite of novels based on the seasons. The first of these, Autumn,...
IAN SHADWELL Slush Pile. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

IAN 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 literary narcissism. Michael is a prodigy, having won the Booker Prize for his first novel before he...