Books & Poetry

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...

Following in the steps of ‘White Teeth’ and ‘Brick Lane’, ‘Disobedience’ is the latest London novel to lift the lid on the city’s ethnic and religious...

There are few intellectual pursuits so harmless that malice cannot turn them into the stuff of nightmares. Heather Pringle’s new book explains in detail how antiquarianism, paganism, the...

Journalist Will Hodgkinson had spent most of his life obsessing about guitars, but had never even touched one. At the age of 34, he decides to teach himself, picking up lessons en route from...

WB Yeats famously wrote that he mind of man is forced to choose between perfection of the life or of the work. Here in Valerie Martin’s new collection of stories is ample proof of the dangers...