For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Tom Williams

From the September 2023 Issue

Neanderthals Among Us

The Seventh Son

By Sebastian Faulks

From the May 2023 Issue

Marriage of Convenience

The House of Doors

By Tan Twan Eng

From the December 2022 Issue

Happiness Is A Warm Gun

The Wheel of Doll

By Jonathan Ames

From the September 2022 Issue

Plant Life

Trespass

By Clare Clark

From the November 2021 Issue

Identity Parade

Case Study

By Graeme Macrae Burnet

From the August 2021 Issue

Time After Time

Monument Maker

By David Keenan

From the June 2021 Issue

A Town of Two Halves

Peterdown

By David Annand

From the April 2021 Issue

Build It Up, Tear It Down

White City

By Kevin Power

From the June 2019 Issue

Life in the Big Smoke

Plume

By Will Wiles

From the November 2018 Issue

Bertie’s Back

Jeeves and the King of Clubs

By Ben Schott

From the April 2018 Issue

Speak, Memory

Three Poems

By Hannah Sullivan

Europa

By Sean O'Brien

Anecdotal Evidence

By Wendy Cope

From the December 2017 Issue

Sound & Fury

House of Lords and Commons

By Ishion Hutchinson

The President of Planet Earth

By David Wheatley

The Radio

By Leontia Flynn

From the September 2017 Issue

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Reconciliation

By Guy Ware

From the November 2016 Issue

Here I Stand

A Horse Walks into a Bar

By David Grossman (Translated by Jessica Cohen)

From the June 2016 Issue

What’s in a Name?

Lingua Franca

By William Thacker

From the October 2015 Issue

All You Need Is an Island

Beatlebone

By Kevin Barry

From the May 2015 Issue

Sink or Swim

Quicksand

By Steve Toltz

From the April 2015 Issue

This Blessed Plot

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

By Magnus Mills

From the September 2014 Issue

Blast from the Past

How to be Both

By Ali Smith

From the September 2011 Issue

Cabinet of Curiosities

A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In

By Magnus Mills