Books & Poetry

Fiona Danks’ background is in environmental education, Jo Schofield’s is in commercial photography; what they share is a passion for exploring wild places and a conviction that children...

‘I had no idea how to write a novel,’ says Jane Harris, ‘and after about 15,000 words it ground to a halt. I didn’t know what to do with it, so I stuck it away in a...

‘Do you remember what it was like to be 14?’ asks the book jacket of Tania Unsworth’s tale of female adolescence. For those who do, and do so with that clarity of memory which now...

This book doesn’t live up to its title, but what a title that is. In the title story of this collection, the narrator, himself a writer, steals it from Yakup, a waiter in a Turkish bar who...

Dhaliwal’s debut is certainly flashy but it’s pretty unpleasant too, and recalls numerous empty novels of disenfranchised frustration from Camus to Houllebecq. Like the latter, Dhaliwal...

There’s nothing better, book-wise, than falling upon a brilliant novel about which you had little or no expectation. Such was the case with ‘The Space Between Us’ by Thrity...

Ismailov’s wonderful, ironic, sometimes devotional novel details, through the course of the last century, the lives and stories of the multi-ethnic inhabitants of the Uzbek railway town of...

Wallflower’s ever-expanding and comprehensive Short Cuts series appeals as much to cinema enthusiasts as Film Studies undergraduates. The latest to arrive is Peter Krämer’s...

‘The Gardens of the Dead’ reacquaints us with barrister-turned-monk Father Anselm from Brodrick’s Richard & Judy-listed debut ‘The Sixth Lamentation’. Like its...

‘On Trying To Keep Still’ is Jenny Diski’s third travel book. Mia Hansson goes to Cambridge to meet her Was it ‘Emptiness’? ‘Stillness’? ‘Trying To...