For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Sam Leith

From the August 2000 Issue

Talking It Over Again

Love, etc

By Julian Barnes

From the October 2002 Issue

Another Shandy?

Middlesex

By Jeffrey Eugenides

From the September 2019 Issue

Back to the Future

The Second Sleep

By Robert Harris

From the July 2019 Issue

The Spy Who Came Out of the Chippy

Joe Country

By Mick Herron

From the October 2017 Issue

Diary: To Be or To Not Be

From the July 2017 Issue

Reach for the Stars

H(A)PPY

By Nicola Barker

From the May 2016 Issue

Compound Interests

Zero K

By Don DeLillo

From the April 2003 Issue

On the Road to Nowhere

The Scheme for Full Employment

By Magnus Mills

From the September 2003 Issue

The Agoraphobe Within

Voyage To The End of the Room

By Tibor Fischer

From the February 2004 Issue

Kidnapped for the Cows

What We Lost: A Story of My Father's Childhood

By Granta Books 229pp £12

From the June 2004 Issue

You Got Me on My Knees, Leela

Transmission

By Hari Kunzru

From the July 2004 Issue

Waking Up Is Hard To Do

The Coma

By Alex Garland (Nicholas Garland ill.)

From the August 2004 Issue

What The Doctor Did

Don't Move

By Margaret Mazzantini

From the September 2004 Issue

Living In A Box

Clear: A Transparent Novel

By Nicola Barker

From the October 2004 Issue

Stories of a Century

The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories

By Yann Martel

From the December 2004 Issue

Puritans Vs Papists

Havoc, In Its Third Year

By Ronan Bennett

From the September 2014 Issue

Family Matters

The Children Act

By Ian McEwan

From the October 2011 Issue

The Adman Cometh

The Inner Man: The Life of J G Ballard

By John Baxter

From the August 2011 Issue

Desperately Seeking Puttenham

From the June 2010 Issue

The Donkey & the Howler-Monkey

Beatrice and Virgil

By Yann Martel