BBooks Read More A quiet story of personal crisis that swells into tumultuous tide of historyAugust 30, 2025 Hugo Hamilton’s latest novel, Conversations with the Sea, centres on Lukas Dorn, a forlorn, lonesome middle-aged German man…
BBooks Read More Punished by a kindness to strangersAugust 23, 2025 The novel opens with TikToker Elly Parker heading through Grand Central Station to an important meeting. She has…
BBooks Read More Humour and author’s voice stand out in collectionAugust 18, 2025 Although rarely out of fashion, the Irish short story has experienced something of a renaissance in the last…
BBooks Read More Labyrinthine plot a lottery offering a frothy concoctionAugust 9, 2025 This mystery story involving a missing multimillion-dollar artefact is, for all its high stakes and cast of colourful,…
BBooks Read More A very readable and expertly paced quest for a past love in post-apocalyptic LondonAugust 9, 2025 Migraine, Samuel Fisher’s third novel, is short, tense, and punchy. The story follows two male characters, Ellis and…