YOUNG FICTION By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:41 GMT, 31 January 2020 EVERNIGHT by Ross Mackenzie (Andersen Press £7.99, 352 pp) EVERNIGHT by Ross Mackenzie (Andersen Press £7.99, 352 pp) There was a man made of midnight and his name was Shadow Jack . . … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 30 January 2020 | Updated: 11:53 GMT, 31 January 2020 THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake (Viking £14.99, 496 pp) THE GUEST BOOK by Sarah Blake (Viking £14.99, 496 pp) After her wartime novel The Postmistress, Sarah Blake returns with a multi-generational saga … Read more
At the start of this slim, intensely absorbing novel about life after shattering loss, a woman loses her bearings in France. She has no interest in the country.
From Hilary Mantel’s cracking The Mirror & The Light to a funny debut by Michelle Gallen and Marina Lewycka’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Amber Pearson For Event Magazine and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 The Mirror … Read more
Feeling worried about climate change has now been recognised as a legitimate mental health issue.
OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT by Petina Gappah (Faber £16.99, 320pp) Set after the death of Victorian explorer David Livingstone, Petina Gappah’s novel is part of a trend for putting history’s supposed bit-part players centre-stage. Incredibly, Livingstone’s African retinue trekked across the continent so that his body could be buried in Britain. Gappah fictionalises two … Read more
From Sebastian Barry’s splendidly old-fashioned A Thousand Moons to an ultimately uplifting debut from Abi Daré, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry … Read more
From Louise Erdrich’s beguiling latest to English Monsters by James Scudamore and Louise Hare’s timely debut, this week’s best new fiction By Jeffrey Burke and Anthony Gardner and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:00 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 14 March 2020 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 5 March 2020 | Updated: 23:40 GMT, 5 March 2020 HOW A WOMAN BECOMES A LAKE by Marjorie Celona (Virago £16.99, 272 pp) A woman comes across a ten-year-old boy alone in a forest car park on a freezing New Year’s Day. The … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:04 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 23:27 GMT, 13 March 2020 A THOUSAND MOONS by Sebastian Barry (Faber £18.99, 272 pp) A THOUSAND MOONS by Sebastian Barry (Faber £18.99, 272 pp) Barry’s Costa-winning novel Days Without End told the story of Thomas, who flees … Read more