Marjorie Celona’s Y is the heart-wrenching journey of Shannon, a Canadian girl abandoned at birth. Shannon tells the story of her life as an unwanted child in a rough part of Canada flooded with drugs, […]
Books: My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red is one of the more complicated books I’ve ever read. It contains fifty-nine chapters, focusing mainly on twelve narrative voices (as if one wasn’t enough) and concentration is […]
Books: New Review: Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
Silent House is not a new novel, in fact it is almost 30 years old. However it has only recently been translated into English, giving us an insight into Turkish politics during the turbulent […]
Books: New Review: This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
This Is How You Lose Her is Junot Díaz’s new collection of inventive stories, all but one narrated by Yunior, a young Dominican serial cheater, and same voice of Diaz’s previous works, Drown and […]
New Review: Booker Longlist: Open City by Teju Cole
So they didn’t make the Man Booker shortlist this year but these longlisted novels are still well worth a read says Lottie Brown. Along the streets of Manhattan a young Nigerian doctor walks for […]
Summer Read: Skios by Michael Frayn
In Untold Stories, Alan Bennett describes Michael Frayn’s morning journey from home to office. The route takes him past Bennett’s window and the previous site of The Lady In The Van vehicle in Camden […]