For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Fiction

March 1996 Issue

Amanda Craig

All About India

A Fine Balance

By Rohinton Mistry

January 1995 Issue

Nicholas Shakespeare

Diarist who Makes your Hair Stand on End

Journals (1982-1986)

By Anthony Powell

December 1998 Issue

A S Byatt

Their Normal Daily Lives Punctuated by Disaster

The Love of a Good Woman

By Alice Munro

November 1998 Issue

Jane Gardam

Women Breaking Out

Elementals

By A S Byatt

September 2017 Issue

Sarah Ditum

Life as Art

After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography

By Chris Kraus

Blood and Guts in High School

By Kathy Acker

June 1994 Issue

Cressida Connolly

Watch Her Language

Art and Lies

By Jeanette Winterson

April 1990 Issue

Kate Saunders

A Handsome Windsor

The Prince

By Celia Brayfield

July 1994 Issue

Jane Charteris

Sheer Heaven

Some Hope

By Edward St Aubyn

September 1981 Issue

Joseph Bristow

Homosexual Fissures

Cracks in the Image: Stories by Gay Men

June 1980 Issue

Gillian Avery

Children’s Books: Cosy Corner

Tales of Little Grey Rabbit

By Alison Uttley

January 1980 Issue

Mihir Bose

Who is Naipaul? Some Thoughts on English Fiction

Colin Wilson

Only Half Cock

Crazy Cock

By Henry Miller

September 1981 Issue

Patrick Maguire

Real-life Americans

Women

By Charles Bukowski

The Rat on Fire

By George V Higgins

August 1981 Issue

Duncan Fallowell

Post Homo Sapiens

Cities of the Red Night

By William Burroughs

August 1981 Issue

Julian Rathbone

The Ultimate Work

Hello America

By J G Ballard

March 1981 Issue

Bill Greenwell

Sharpish

A Good Man in Africa

By William Boyd

I, Norman Harris

By Derek Kartun

February 2004 Issue

Alan Rafferty

Accident-Prone Author

Oracle Night

By Paul Auster

Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces and Collaborations with Artists

By Paul Auster