Category Archives: literary book review
Review: My Death by Lisa Tuttle
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre parallels between her life and her subject’s—in this chilling and singularly strange novella by a contemporary master … Continue reading
Review: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjón’s specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjón’s most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a … Continue reading
Review: Liquid Snakes by Stephen Kearse
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: What if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? A Black biochemist provides an answer in this wildly original novel of pollution, poison, and dark pleasure In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar … Continue reading
Review: The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 Edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed 2021 anthology described as containing “some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year.” The … Continue reading
Review: My Weil by Lars Iyer
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: “Memorable characters make this a singular exploration of the human condition.” – Publishers Weekly A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider … Continue reading
Review: Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Half-decent copper Bob Fraser and burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead would be considered villains in most people’s books. They have one thing in common, though. They’re both desperate men dangerously in love with Chapeltown whores. … Continue reading
Review: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, vivid storytelling that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around … Continue reading
Review: Bear by Marian Engel
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: ‘A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance.’ – Margaret Atwood Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. She … Continue reading
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