From Louise Erdrich’s beguiling latest to English Monsters by James Scudamore and Louise Hare’s timely debut, this week’s best new fiction By Jeffrey Burke and Anthony Gardner and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:00 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 14 March 2020 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich … Read more
WORLD FICTION By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:04 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 23:21 GMT, 12 March 2020 KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo translated by Jamie Chang (Scribner £12.99, 176 pp) KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo translated by Jamie Chang (Scribner £12.99, 176 pp) Written in just … Read more
From Sebastian Barry’s splendidly old-fashioned A Thousand Moons to an ultimately uplifting debut from Abi Daré, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry … Read more
From the ‘beautifully observed’ Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid to the latest from Isabel Allende and Eoin Colfer’s adult debut, this week’s new fiction By Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Anthony Cummins and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 4 January 2020 | Updated: 15:37 GMT, 6 January 2020 Such … Read more
From Rebecca Wait’s ‘outstanding’ Our Fathers to the evocative Low by Jeet Thayil and Agency by William Gibson, this week’s best new fiction By Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Anthony Gardner and Jeffrey Burke Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2020 Our Fathers Rebecca Wait … Read more
THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner (Granta £16.99, 304 pp) THE TOPEKA SCHOOL by Ben Lerner (Granta £16.99, 304 pp) American auto-fiction star Ben Lerner’s third novel —which comes endorsed by the uber-cool likes of Sally Rooney and Maggie Nelson — is a potent, painful picking-apart of trauma; the beginnings of the age of information … Read more
OLIGARCHY OLIGARCHY by Scarlett Thomas (Canongate £14.99, 224 pp) by Scarlett Thomas (Canongate £14.99, 224 pp) We never see the oligarch in Scarlett Thomas’s latest: he’s a fabulously wealthy, shadowy Russian, possibly criminal, who has sent his adolescent daughter Natasha, the recently discovered product of a long-ago fling, to an all-girls English boarding school, ostensibly … Read more
POPULAR FICTION By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:13 GMT, 7 November 2019 | Updated: 22:13 GMT, 7 November 2019 THIS IS YESTERDAY THIS IS YESTERDAY by Rose Ruane (Corsair £14.99, 320 pp) by Rose Ruane (Corsair £14.99, 320 pp) This stunningly written debut timeslips between a present-day hospital ward and the summer … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:08 GMT, 14 November 2019 | Updated: 22:46 GMT, 14 November 2019 THE CHEFFE by Marie NDiaye (MacLehose £12.99, 288 pp) THE CHEFFE by Marie NDiaye (MacLehose £12.99, 288 pp) As the thrill of watching MasterChef hopefuls sweat over their confits never grows old, here’s … Read more
From Deepa Anappara’s ‘delightfully observed debut’ to Miss Austen by Gill Hornby and Jeanine Cummins’ page-turner, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Cummins Published: 22:02 GMT, 18 January 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 18 January 2020 Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line Deepa Anappara … Read more