John Lanchester’s Booker Prize longlisted novel drags us around a dismal post-apocalyptic future through the eyes of Kavanagh. As a …

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John Lanchester’s Booker Prize longlisted novel drags us around a dismal post-apocalyptic future through the eyes of Kavanagh. As a …
I finished reading On the Beach, just as Britain went into Covid-19 lockdown. Nevil Shute’s 1950s tale of Australians waiting …
Review of Blindness by Jose Saramago This story starts out really well, with the basic premise of the whole population …
Proper, old school sci-fi. Encased in a second-hand bookstore pulp fiction paperback from 1970, ooh, tingles. After a few chapters, …
I bought The Taken by Alice Clark-Platts because it’s a murder mystery set in Durham, where I’ve lived for 30 …
Book review – Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving I have a mixed relationship with the works of John Irving. …
Book review Amy Lord’s debut strikes a grey chord envisaging a possible future London, nay, an alternate, current London, governed …
This modern day gothic vampire lark, set in an (imagined) English university town, is brilliant. All the tropes play out, …
Stephanie Bretherton’s novel, Bone Lines, follows twin narratives of two strong female characters. Eloise is a successful archaeological anthropologist. She’s …
Dystopian Hull. That may sound like a tautology, but the imagined future in Sour Fruit is more real than many …