How could J. K. Rowling’s first ‘book for adults’ ever be received as momentously as the world of Harry Potter; the world we joined the author in dwelling for so many glorious childhood years? […]
Books: New Review: Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
Within the first few pages of Zoo Time Guy Ableman, Howard Jacobson’s unlikely hero, is abused by an unruly reading group for hating all women and children, reprimanded for stuffing his face with a […]
Books: New Review: A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
There are a few authors who inspire complete confidence; unless something has gone horribly wrong, their newest offering will be brilliant. Sebastian Faulks is – one of those authors, but even he admits A […]
Books: Halloween Classic of the Week: Trilby by George Du Maurier
Now this is a novel soaked with cultural history. Trilby inspired Leroux’s The Phantom of The Opera, coined the term Svengali, now forever to denote a hypnotic and controlling young gentleman, and turned the […]
Classic of the Week: The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
‘The whole casino was crowding around… I experienced some sort of irresistible pleasure in snatching and raking in the banknotes… The experienced player knows what this ‘capricious luck’ means.’ Capriciousness is one of the […]
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 […]
New Review: Booker Longlist: The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
So they didn’t make the Man Booker shortlist this year but these longlisted novels are still well worth a read says Lottie Brown. For students, a blurb that starts with the words: ‘history happened […]
Classic of the Week: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
‘They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented’: Lottie Brown is thrown into the conventions of 70s New York society […]