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Book Reviews by
Edmund Gordon

From the October 2018 Issue

Brief Encounters

The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

By Philip Hensher (ed)

From the December 2017 Issue

Cold Comfort

Winter

By Ali Smith

Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

By Melissa Harrison (ed)

Winter

By Karl Ove Knausgaard

From the August 2011 Issue

Tears for Beers

On Canaan’s Side

By Sebastian Barry

From the November 2010 Issue

Suffer The Children

The Murderess

By Alexandros Papadiamantis

From the June 2010 Issue

‘Massacre of Mothers’

The Birth of Love

By Joanna Kavenna

From the February 2007 Issue

In Byron’s Shadow

Imposture

By Benjamin Markovits

From the April 2012 Issue

What Was Left Behind

Scenes from Early Life

By Philip Hensher

From the September 2012 Issue

Literary Review

Book Reviews by
Edmund Gordon

Brief Encounters

The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

By Philip Hensher (ed)

Cold Comfort

Winter

By Ali Smith

Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

By Melissa Harrison (ed)

Winter

By Karl Ove Knausgaard

Tears for Beers

On Canaan’s Side

By Sebastian Barry

Suffer The Children

The Murderess

By Alexandros Papadiamantis

‘Massacre of Mothers’

The Birth of Love

By Joanna Kavenna

In Byron’s Shadow

Imposture

By Benjamin Markovits

What Was Left Behind

Scenes from Early Life

By Philip Hensher

Kilburn Calling

NW

By Zadie Smith

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