Category Archives: literary book review
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
Review: Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to … Continue reading
Review: Their Four Hearts by Vladimir Sorokin
Buy it here: Dalkey Archive, Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In many respects, Their Four Hearts is a book of endings and final things. Vladimir Sorokin wrote it in the year the Soviet Union collapsed and then didn’t write fiction for ten years after … Continue reading
Review: The Child and The River by Henri Bosco
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A new translation of an evocative, Huckleberry Finn –esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that ensue when he disobeys his family’s wishes. … Continue reading
Review: Friend of My Youth by Amit Chaudhuri
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on his mind, as does the … Continue reading
Review: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles. She’s on a quest to find her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally … Continue reading
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