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Tag: Book Review

Your Retreating Shadow: poetry as a portal between conscious memory and subconscious dreaming

12th December 202213th December 2022  Jennifer Brough

Rochelle Roberts’ speaker moves back and forth through the porous gateway of memory in an uncanny debut. 

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Broken Sleep Books, poetry collection, Rochelle Roberts, Your Retreating Shadow

Animals at Night by Naomi Booth – a cuttingly haunting short story collection

26th September 202226th September 2022  Suzannah Ball

Naomi Booth’s short story collection delves into the nocturnal happenings of both animals and humans, revealing worlds that are closely intertwined in all the beauty, ugliness, and honesty of nature.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Animals at Night, Book Review, Books of 2022, Dead Ink Books, Naomi Booth

Walking on Cowrie Shells by Nana Nkweti: an exuberant, insightful short story collection

25th July 2022  Laetitia Erskine

Nana Nkweti cleaves open worlds shaped by Cameroonian heritage and American individuality, deftly revealing complex cultural exchanges in these immersive, genre-bending short stories.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Indigo Press, Nana Nkweti, Short Stories, Walking on Cowrie Shells

Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews – a transporting, visceral second novel

17th July 202217th July 2022  Rebecca Clark

A sizzling novel to read in the heat, when you’re hungry for life, Jessica Andrews’ Milk Teeth explores what it means for women to take up space unapologetically and allow their needs – and desires – to be met.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books, Books of 2022, Hodder & Stoughton, Jessica Andrews, Milk Teeth, Rebecca Clark, Saltwater

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

20th June 202223rd June 2022  Rebecca Clark

In her captivating novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield tenderly and credibly depicts the pain of absence, loss and transformation often experienced in romantic relationships.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books, Fiction, Gothic Fiction, Julia Armfield, Novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, Rebecca Clark, Salt Slow

Wolfskin by Lara Moreno, translated by Katie Whittemore: a review and extract

6th March 20226th March 2022  Elodie Rose Barnes

Close but uneasy family ties form the backbone of this extraordinary, poetic, and refreshingly honest novel by Lara Moreno.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Katie Whittemore, Lara Moreno, novel extract, Structo Press, translated fiction, Wolfskin

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

12th November 202112th November 2021  Rym Kechacha

Rym Kechacha reviews The Books of Jacob: a wonderful, huge and complex book that asks the reader to “turn our gaze away from the simple”, and instead embrace flux, transformation, and narrative that “sprawls like a great tree’s roots”.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Jennifer Croft, Olga Tokarczuk, Polish literature, The Books of Jacob, translated fiction

Interview with poet Emily Cooper: ‘I’m obsessed with recording memories and stories’

14th September 202117th September 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Barnes talks to Emily Cooper about her debut collection Glass: poems which shift and reflect on the ideas of home as architectural space, home as memory space, permanence, impermanence, and the ‘ownership’ of stories.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Book Review, Emily Cooper, Glass, Interview, Makina Books, Poetry, poetry collection

Locating the ‘new’ in The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease

15th August 202115th August 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

This exhilarating anthology of short stories challenges us to look beyond the shiny façade of ‘the new’ and to embrace ‘the abject’ – the ambiguous, the old, the distressing parts of ourselves and our society – and to ask what place the abject should have in our culture today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: anthology, Book Review, Comma Press, Georges Bataille, Julia Kristeva, Ra Page, Sarah Eyre, Short Stories, Tales of Modern Unease, the abject, The New Abject

Ways of Living by Gemma Seltzer: powerful and deeply human

28th July 202128th July 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Shamini Sriskandarajah reviews this debut collection of London-based short stories, full of vivid, colourful characters and with a joyfully feminist streak.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Gemma seltzer, Influx Press, London, Short Stories, Ways of Living

The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression – an intellectual exploration of the personal at an arm’s length

21st June 202122nd June 2021  Jennifer Brough

Eva Meijer’s richly referenced musings illustrate the gaps in language when trying to distil the depressive experience.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Antoinette Fawcett, Book Review, Books in translation, depression, Eva Meijer, Language, Mental Health, Pushkin Press

In Memory of Memory: the fragmented story of a family’s century

17th June 202122nd June 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Maria Stepanova’s memoir, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale, weaves together storytelling, culture, art, and philosophy to form a mosaic image of her family’s history.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, family history, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Maria Stepanova, memoir, memory, Russian literature, Sasha Dugdale

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