LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 2 January 2020 | Updated: 15:01 GMT, 3 January 2020 ISABELLE IN THE AFTERNOON by Douglas Kennedy (Hutchinson £13.99) There is an inordinate amount of sex in the latest from the bestselling author of The Pursuit Of Happiness. Sam is a young American … Read more
LITERARY FICTION By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 11:55 GMT, 10 January 2020 YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY by Steph Cha (Faber £12.99, 320 pp) In Los Angeles in the early 1990s, racial tensions — already … Read more
Before graduating from the UEA’s prestigious creative writing programme, Deepa Anappara worked as a journalist in India
LITERARY FICTION By Claire Allfree For The Daily Mail Published: 22:10 GMT, 23 January 2020 | Updated: 23:12 GMT, 23 January 2020 THE ISLAND CHILD by Molly Aitken (Canongate £14.99, 320 pp) Superstition and Catholicism sit in uneasy alliance on the weather-battered Irish island where Oona is growing up, her every move watched over by … 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.
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
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