PICTURE THIS  – Nov 21, 2019

PICTURE THIS By Gerry Fallon For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 21 November 2019 TWINNING IT!  by Sam and Teagan Rybka (Murdoch Books £14.99, 200 pp) TWINNING IT! by Sam and Teagan Rybka (Murdoch Books £14.99, 200 pp) The identical and supremely bendy Rybka twins, a dance … Read more

RETRO READS – Nov 21, 2019

RETRO READS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 HOLIDAY by Stanley Middleton (Windmill £8.99, 256 pp) HOLIDAY by Stanley Middleton (Windmill £8.99, 256 pp) How to fill the time? In this vividly moving novel, Edwin, 32, strolls through a seedy seaside … Read more

SHORT STORIES – Nov 21, 2019

SHORT STORIES By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 SUDDEN TRAVELLER by Sarah Hall (Faber £12.99, 144 pp) SUDDEN TRAVELLER by Sarah Hall (Faber £12.99, 144 pp) Sarah Hall’s seven short stories are death-haunted; grief and loss are indelibly etched on to … Read more

CRIME – Nov 21, 2019

CRIME By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 I WILL MISS YOU TOMORROW by Heine Bakkeid (Raven Books £12.99, 416 pp) I WILL MISS YOU TOMORROW by Heine Bakkeid (Raven Books £12.99, 416 pp) A literary sensation in Scandinavia — and set … Read more

LITERARY FICTION – Nov 21, 2019

CHRISTMAS IN AUSTIN by Benjamin Markovits (Faber £16.99, 432 pp) CHRISTMAS IN AUSTIN by Benjamin Markovits (Faber £16.99, 432 pp) If you haven’t read the first in this rangy, yet addictively immersive, American family saga, all you need know is that Paul Essinger, retired from his undistinguished tennis career, is having a slow-motion breakdown. Now, … Read more