From Kathleen Jamie to Richard Overy: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life by Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski and The Cursed Friend by Elena Pala.
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Also featuring Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life by Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski and The Cursed Friend by Elena Pala.
By Michael Prodger, Tom Gatti and Zuzanna LachendroAlso featuring Spent Light by Lara Pawson and Moral AI And How We Get There.
By Barney Horner, Will Dunn, Michael Prodger and Tom GattiFor all its themes of cronyism and catastrophe, the Smile’s Wall of Eyes suggests that Yorke has found serenity…
By Tom GattiAlso featuring Deterring Armageddon by Peter Apps and Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills.
By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey, Tom Gatti and Megan KenyonThe award for “mould-breaking” fiction goes to a millennia-spanning epic about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne.
By Tom GattiThe Goldsmiths-shortlisted author on aliens, revolutionary France and our era of misinformation.
By Tom GattiLazy prose, stale humour, zero imagination: his bestselling children’s books belong to the Boaty McBoatface school of fiction.
By Tom GattiAlso featuring Kenneth W Harl’s history of nomadic tribes and Redstone Press’s Seeing Things.
By Barney Horner, Pippa Bailey, Michael Prodger and Tom GattiA tale of art and betrayal in 1920s Venice.