For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Elspeth Barker

From the February 2008 Issue

Odi et Amo

Counting the Stars

By Helen Dunmore

From the October 2018 Issue

Conscious Coupling

In the City of Love's Sleep

By Lavinia Greenlaw

From the June 2016 Issue

Kiss Me, Katya

Vinegar Girl

By Anne Tyler

From the May 2016 Issue

Ancestral Voices

LaRose

By Louise Erdrich

From the September 2015 Issue

Sweet Deception

Love and Lies: And Why You Can’t Have One Without the Other

By Clancy Martin

From the February 2015 Issue

The House that Junior Built

A Spool of Blue Thread

By Anne Tyler

From the December 2014 Issue

A Horse Called Patrick

Honeydew

By Edith Pearlman

From the March 2014 Issue

Greek Mythologies

The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay

By Andrea Gillies

From the November 2010 Issue

Fowler Power

From the September 2010 Issue

Artist Of The Portrait

Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

By Martin Gayford

From the June 2010 Issue

Stitcher of Songs

The Lost Books of the Odyssey

By Zachary Mason

From the November 2009 Issue

Words, Glorious Words

Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels and Irené Wotherspoon (eds)

From the October 2009 Issue

Desperately Seeking Dylan

My Father’s Places

By Aeronwy Thomas

From the June 2009 Issue

The Little Owl

Lavinia

By Ursula K Le Guin

From the May 2009 Issue

Getting On With It

A Jury of her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

By Elaine Showalter

From the February 2009 Issue

Aurochs and Angels

The Natural History of Unicorns

By Chris Lavers

From the November 2008 Issue

Mother Hunger

A Mercy

By Toni Morrison

From the May 2008 Issue

A Mouse on the Jasmine

Diaries, Letters and Recollections

By Lynette Roberts (Edited by Patrick McGuinness)

From the December 2007 Issue

Beetle-Headed Whelp!

The Other Book

By Philip Womack

From the July 2014 Issue

What the Parrot Saw

The Stories

By Jane Gardam