Category: Book Reviews

My dear writing chum L P Fergusson has done it again – published by Canelo last week, you can pick this cracker of a historical thriller up on Amazon now. I reviewed it there the minute I’d finished and I’ve popped it up on the blog now. Prepare for a full immersion into the briny,… Continue reading The Summer Fields – LP Fergusson

A timely, finely-wrought novel about people living in the margins, relying on people who are more likely to harm than help. Lalwani’s close and accurate observations of the tiny shifts in feeling that persuade you to trust, when everything tells you not to, is masterly. Tuli, of Sri Lankan descent himself, is the strangely compelling… Continue reading You People – Nikita Lalwani

BBC World Service are doing a programme in their World Books series on this Prix Goncourt winning title. I’ve submitted a question and hope to be there for the session with the author later this month. Slimani is a no-prisoners author and personality in the grown up literary world of French writers and this book… Continue reading Lullaby by Leila Slimani