When is a book a book of short stories and when is it a collection? The difference might […]
Category Archive: Book reviews
Hurricane Season has been described as murder mystery, horror fiction, noir detective, political: it is all of them […]
Exercises in Control, the debut collection from Annabel Banks, fills the space between stimuli and reaction that resides […]
Joanna Pocock’s Surrender opens with the author’s ennui at approaching fifty, being on the cusp of the menopause […]
Absent fathers and abusive fathers. Jobless fathers and unfaithful fathers. Trying fathers and suicidal fathers. For Paulina Flores, […]
Let’s start from the end. (that seems logical, doesn’t it?) Manus, manualis, manual. These words are not the […]
‘Once you’ve been through the doors of perception, once you’ve understood socialism in your body, well, you can […]
I, we… whatever, That’s going to be the theme here. That’s going to be how it all starts, […]
In the beginning Gloria created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was nanti form, and void; […]
The quote on the back of Samanta Schweblin’s Mouthful of Birds, from JM Coetzee no less, compares her […]
