LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 6 May 2021 CHINA ROOM by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker £16.99, 256 pp) CHINA ROOM by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker £16.99, 256 pp) Two members of the same family, separated by 70 years, try to take … Read more
The Duchess of Sussex may have announced this week she has written her first children’s book called The Bench, but there is, of course, another Duchess who beat her to it. Step forward the Duchess of York, 61, the leading writer of children’s fiction in royal circles, who made her name with her Budgie The … Read more
From an offbeat noir by Jonathan Ames to The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams, Paul Theroux’s absorbing tale and Rosa Rankin-Gee’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By John Williams and Anthony Cummins and Hephzibah Anderson and Alex Peake-tomkinson Published: 22:00 BST, 1 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 1 May 2021 A … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Stephanie Cross for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 22 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 22 April 2021 WHITE CITY by Kevin Power (Scribner £14.99, 464 pp) WHITE CITY by Kevin Power (Scribner £14.99, 464 pp) This novel about fathers and sons, greed, privilege and complicity, begins when Dubliner Ben’s banker … Read more
From Saima Mir’s debut novel to My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley, an uplifting tale by Julietta Henderson and Jessie Greengrass’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By John Williams and Madeleine Feeny and Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner Published: 22:01 BST, 17 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 17 April 2021 The Khan Saima Mir … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 15 April 2021 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 15 April 2021 LEAN FALL STAND by Jon McGregor (Fourth Estate £14.99, 288 pp) LEAN FALL STAND by Jon McGregor (Fourth Estate £14.99, 288 pp) Jon McGregor’s latest has the most thrilling beginning I’ve read in … Read more
From Alaa Al Aswany’s searing account to Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan, a semi-surreal collection by Haruki Murakami and Rosalie Knecht’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Max Davidson and Eithne Farry and Anthony Gardner and John Williams Published: 22:01 BST, 10 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 10 April 2021 The Republic Of … Read more
From Claire Fuller’s atmospheric novel to Names Of The Women by Jeet Thayil, a classy page-turner by Chris Power and Erin Kelly’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Anthony Cummins and John Williams Published: 22:01 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 3 April 2021 Unsettled Ground … Read more
MY PHANTOMS by Gwendoline Riley (Granta £12.99, 208 pp) MY PHANTOMS by Gwendoline Riley (Granta £12.99, 208 pp) You don’t read Gwendoline Riley to be cheered up, but even by her standards, My Phantoms is bleak. It’s a portrait of a mother/daughter relationship, although narrator Bridget, the daughter in the equation, is scarcely more forthcoming … Read more
From Laura Kay’s nicely written debut to Kitchenly 434 by Alan Warner, a tender narration by Fiona Mozley and Peter Swanson’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Neil Armstrong and Anthony Cummins and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 27 March 2021 The Split Laura … Read more