Articles relating to: book review
Poetry Review: The Distance Between Clouds by Henry Normal
Henry Normal might just be the most famous person you have never heard of.
Book Review: Shocked Earth by Saskia Goldschmidt, translated by Antoinette Fawcett
The global outbreak of COVID-19 has affected every part of human lives, including the physical world. As we now navigate a post-pandemic era, it’s become even clearer that how we treat the natural world around us is paramount to its – and our own – survival.
Book Review: A Stinging Delight – A Memoir by David Storey
Throughout his memoir, A Stinging Delight, David Storey wrangles with a sense of loss that was hardwired into him before he was born.
Book Review: I Belong Here by Anita Sethi
In early summer 2019, Anita Sethi was sitting in a packed carriage on the TransPennine Express train from Liverpool to Newcastle when she was racially abused by a man who, among other abhorrent things, told her to “go back to where you are from”.
Book Review: Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
In the preface to this new Faber compendium of essays about The Fall, co-editors Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley declare that ‘this book is not about a rock band’. They say: ‘This is not even about Mark E Smith. The book is for Mark E Smith more than it is about him.”
“I’m a very late starter to this novel-writing lark.” Award-winning crime author Trevor Wood talks to Northern Soul
The huge surge in the readership of crime novels during the present unpleasantness arises partly, no doubt, from the visceral pleasure, sheer entertainment and, yes, reassurance to be had from a gripping plot, set within a somewhat familiar formula in a world where justice might actually triumph.
Book Review: Castles from Cobwebs by J.A. Mensah
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I stopped reading.
Book Review – Relax: A User’s Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety by Timothy Caulfield
It’s easy to believe that the entire world has lost its mind.
Book Review: Manchester – Something Rich and Strange
Attempting to sum up the city of Manchester in one book is no small task.
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