Category Archives: literary book review
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
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
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