Murata Sayaka’s “World 99”: What It Means to Be Human
Murata Sayaka’s latest novel World 99, published in Japan in 2025, is set in a society disrupted by…
Toni Jordan’s engrossing page-turning saga
Tenderfoot – quick links Tenderfoot, Toni Jordan’s eighth novel, takes place in the suburban Brisbane of Joh Bjelke-Petersen…
There is gender bias in book reviews, says publisher Ritu Menon
New Delhi: In the 1990s, when Chitra Narayanan was a young journalist at Business Standard, her newspaper carried…
Review by Paul Di Filippo – Locus Online
A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood Press 978-1958880319, trade paperback, 256pp, $18.99) August 2025. Although Fran Wilde’s…
Step into the mysterious world of the Bohemia –
(Aug. 31, 2025) — Before I begin to sing the praises of Chris Pavone’s latest literary thriller, “The…
The Bookseller of Hay: Richard Booth is the wild man who rewrote the literary map
Hanning’s book is fascinating and is full of larger-than-life characters such as Marianne Faithfull, Dudley Moore, Seamus Heaney,…
A preteen’s tale of adventure with ghosts
What do you want readers to take away from the book? Emotions. It’s not just one of them…
Exploring 600 years of branding in Richard Shear’s book
By Richard Shearc.2025, Rockport/Quarto Publishing$24.99, 160 pages Your morning started out all wrong. You couldn’t find your favorite…
Who Will Remain by Kasim Ali: Race, class and tough choices
All that is in short supply. This is Alum Rock in Birmingham, early 2000s, a grim name (referring…
The Nineteen-Thirties Novel That’s Become a Surprise Hit in the U.K.
The town of Schliersee, about an hour south of Munich in the Bavarian Alps, has long been a…
Rhett Davis’ novel takes ‘tree change’ to a new level
Arborescence: quick links Get ready for a fascinating experience when you open this book. In the world Rhett…
Sam Dalrymple on forgotten stories of the British Raj and its five partitions
What if our history books only told half the story? For Sam Dalrymple, that question became the spark…