Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon
Endpapers taken from 1970s knit fabric in private collection
When I read Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski a year ago, I felt as if my heart had been ripped out in the heightened emotion of the closing pages; with Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon, the emotional intensity was present from the opening page and sustained [...]
The Blue Castle
It is all too seldom that one finds a book to embrace to your heart upon finishing but The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery is one such book. I clasped it with such joy and contentment and poignancy that the experience was over; I fell in love with this book and I am delighted [...]
In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut
Damon Galgut was a writer I had not encountered before In a Strange Room was longlisted for this year’s Man Booker prize. He has been previously shortlisted and the blurb on the front of this book alludes to him being “a kindred spirit of the great Coetzee”; as a recent yet ardent fan of Coetzee, [...]
Room by Emma Donoghue
You may have noticed that Room by Emma Donoghue is a novel that is receiving a lot of attention across the blogosphere. Longlisted for this year’s Man Booker prize, there has been an ever-increasing organic buzz surrounding the novel, that is exciting, deserved and nothing like a droning vuvuzela. Picador in the UK have been [...]
Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
“This is a novel for people with breeding” is the self-proclaiming tag-line for the novel Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman, son of Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books. It is an astonishingly accomplished debut that is highly erudite and original. Boxer, Beetle is intelligent and witty and one of the best debut novels I have read; [...]
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