book reviews and features

Thomas Harris: Cari Mora review – mayhem in Miami

Boyd Tonkin Sunday, 19 May 2019

This March, a real-estate office in Miami Beach, Florida, put a parcel of prime seafront land on the market. A vacant estate with plans filed for a luxury mansion, the plot at 5860 North Bay Road...

Mike Jay: Mescaline - A Global History of the First Psychedelic review - multiple perspectives

Katherine Waters Sunday, 12 May 2019

Humans have been consuming mescaline for millennia. The hallucinogenic alkaloid occurs naturally in a variety of cacti native to...

Ben Okri, Brighton Festival 2019 review - adventures in writing

Katie Colombus Wednesday, 08 May 2019

If there’s one thing to learn from Ben Okri in this evening of conversation at Brighton Festival...

Win a Luxury Weekend for Two to Celebrate Brighton Festival!

admin Tuesday, 07 May 2019

Brighton Festival is the UK’s leading annual celebration of the arts, with events taking place in venues both familiar and unusual across Brighton & Hove for three weeks every May.

This...

Leah Hazard: Hard Pushed review - a midwife's tales

Marina Vaizey Sunday, 05 May 2019

This layered medical memoir by practicing midwife Leah Hazard unpacks riveting tales of all kinds of deliveries and is...

Clare Carlisle: Philosopher of the Heart review – how to be human

Boyd Tonkin Sunday, 28 April 2019

How close should a biographer come to her subject? Clare Carlisle stays by the side, and looks through the eyes, of Søren Kierkegaard at almost every step on his maverick journey. Philosopher...

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Banine: Days in the Caucasus review - revolutions, pogroms and love

Katherine Waters Sunday, 21 April 2019

By fifteen Ummulbanu Asadullayeva — or Banine, to call her by the name under which she wrote and translated — had already lived more than most of us will in a lifetime. She’d experienced great...

Frans de Waal: Mama's Last Hug review - animal feelings

Marina Vaizey Sunday, 14 April 2019

Primatologist, ethologist, zoologist, biologist, social psychologist, behaviourist – how may ‘ists’ can one person have? Dutch-American...

My Enemy's Cherry Tree: Wang Ting-Kuo review - a masterpiece from Taiwan

Katherine Waters Sunday, 07 April 2019

Early every evening, Miss Baixiu comes to sit in an isolated café. She is the daughter of Luo Yiming, the respected employee of a successful commercial bank in charge of loans throughout central...

Ali Smith: Spring review – green shoots, dark fears

Boyd Tonkin Sunday, 31 March 2019

Stopped in the street for a vox pop by a BBC interviewer keen to “fill your air” with strife and bile, a character in Spring retorts that “there’s a world out there bigger than Brexit,...

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