3 minGillespie and I by Jane HarrisOut of all the words I churned through while considering how to describe this novel the one that rose to the top was ‘sinister’. “In the...
3 minThe Year of Lear by James Shapiro The year is 1606. James VI of Scotland has been James I of England for three years. Shakespeare writes King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and...
2 minThe Parrot's Theorem by Denis Guedjitranslated by Frank Wynne This book is French. Of course it is. Where else would a novel quite overtly written as a vehicle for telling...