After Absalon is the conclusion of a wonderful and unique series of novels by Simon Okotie which began with Whatever Happened To Harold Absalon? (2012) (my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/...

Elle voulait porter la paix dans les pays qui avaient connu la guerre. Elle pensait, disait-elle, faire régner l’harmonie par sa seule présence en robe de mariée. Ce n’est pas la grâce ou la bêtise...

‘Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman,’ Virginia Woolf said. ‘And/or Black,’ Malachi said. Virginia Woolf quoted from A Room of...

Now Costa Prize shortlisted to go with the Goldsmiths Prize shortlisting I want to stay my woman self even here when my people long dead I want to be here on land again but deep inside I know there...

Strasbourg lay all around me, familiar streets with cobbles, old buildings constructed in a mixture of styles, most of them incredibly preserved considering the many conflicts that had befallen the...

Saving Lucia by Anna Vaught gives a (fictional) voice to four historic women, each, at some point in her life, constrained by (male) doctors for supposed mental disorder. The author gives more detail...

“These village types,” he says, and spits on the ground. He says it in the same way that people from the village say ‘these city types.’ The publication of Dog, Foot, Snow is a doubly exciting event....

Published by the wonderful Istros Books, "The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse" has been translated by Feza Howell from Ayfer Tunç's "Bir Deliler Evinin Yalan Yanlış Anlatılan...

A Musical Offering (2020) is the translation by Fionn Petch from Luis Sagasti's Una ofrenda musical (2017) and the latest, and 19th, book by Charco Press, fast becoming one of the UK's finest...

I was a big fan of Alex Pheby’s previous two novels but approached this one with some trepidation. Fantasy is not my favourite genre (as a benchmark Lord of the Rings I abandoned in my younger days...

The Appointment is the latest novel from perhaps the UK's finest publisher, Fitzcarraldo Editions, as well as the latest book from the Republic of Consciousness book club. It is, commendably, just 88...

On the grass banks at Brentwood & Corbets Tay, out of the grey central glare of the midnight carriageway, processions of the dead were glimpsed, shadowy and irritable, swaying down towards realities...

Now shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize The latest book from the excellent Republic of Consciousness Book of the Month Club https://www.republicofconsciousness.com/book-of-the-month Mr Beethoven...