Fiction

Fiona Mozley was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2017 for her first novel, Elmet. This is her second, the cover of which is shown on the home ...

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Hot stuff set in Soho

This blog is a rather longer than most of mine. But then David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue is rather longer than most novels, weighing in at 560 pa...

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Writing about music

Michael Connolly is an American crime writer who lives in Los Angeles, where nearly all of his books are set. There are a fair few of them, too: 34 in...

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The three ages of Jack McEvoy

The title of Eimear McBride’s third novel is slightly misleading. Rather than Strange Hotel (the cover is shown on the home page), the noun shou...

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Strange by name…