For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Frank Brinkley

From the December 2020 Issue

Pub Crawls & Paddle Steamers

That Old Country Music

By Kevin Barry

Hallelujah Station & Other Stories

By M Randal O’Wain

From the March 2019 Issue

Ill Behaviour

Pearl and Other Stories

By Julia Darling (Edited by Tamzin Mackie)

You Know You Want This

By Kristen Roupenian

Mouthful of Birds

By Samanta Schweblin (Translated by Megan McDowell)

From the December 2018 Issue

Fifty Shades of Frey

Katerina

By James Frey

From the August 2018 Issue

Modern Myths

Country

By Michael Hughes

Everything Under

By Daisy Johnson

Metamorphica

By Zachary Mason

From the December 2017 Issue

Making Sweet Assemblage

The Destroyers

By Christopher Bollen

From the June 2017 Issue

Bring in the Heavies

Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard

By Guy de la Bédoyère

From the December 2016 Issue

‘To the audacious swell below’

The Day Before Happiness

By Erri De Luca

From the March 2016 Issue

All Play and No Work

Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline

By Simon Parkin

From the November 2015 Issue

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Radiant State

By Peter Higgins

From the July 2015 Issue

Brief Encounters

From the March 2015 Issue

Civil War

Neverhome

By Laird Hunt

From the November 2014 Issue

Consider the Paperclip

Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case

By James Ward

From the May 2014 Issue

Superdad

Tigerman

By Nick Harkaway

From the March 2012 Issue

Out of Eden

In the Orchard, the Swallows

By Peter Hobbs

From the July 2012 Issue

Great Undertakings

A Trick I Learned from Dead Men

By Kitty Aldridge

From the December 2013 Issue

Point Made

Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities

By Keith Houston

From the April 2013 Issue

Short Stories

From the October 2011 Issue

Karachi Casualties

Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

By Mohammed Hanif