NRB readers’ top 10 for 2020

NRB readers’ top 10 for 2020

We’ve crunched the numbers and come up with the ten most popular reviews we’ve run this year, based on reader views. Is your favourite book among them? Here’s a chance to catch up on some you may have missed, or to revisit books that have resonated with...
SOPHIE HARDCASTLE Below Deck. Reviewed by Ann Skea

SOPHIE HARDCASTLE Below Deck. Reviewed by Ann Skea

Sophie Hardcastle’s second novel explores the lure of the sea, and the cost of violence. It starts below deck. Olivia (Oli) has been kidnapped. Well, not actually kidnapped but rescued late at night, in a drunken stupor, by Mac, an old man who now needs to...