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Reviews: Fiction

Reviews of novels and other fiction.

‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers

Book review: ‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers

Summer friendship in the North Riding.

Published 31-Dec-2019
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: Ben Myers, reviews
‘Ness’ by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood

Book review: ‘Ness’ by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood

A haunting prose-poem (I think).

Published 08-Dec-2019
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction, Nature & Place, Poetry Tags: reviews, Robert Macfarlane
‘River’ by Esther Kinsky

Book review: ‘River’ by Esther Kinsky

File under Sebaldian.

Published 27-Aug-2019
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: Esther Kinsky, reviews
All Among the Barley

Book review: ‘All Among the Barley’ by Melissa Harrison

Rural idylls weren’t quite as idyllic as they seemed.

Published 01-Nov-2018
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: fiction, Melissa Harrison, reviews
Gallows Pole

Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers

18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.

Published 22-May-2017
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: Ben Myers, Calder Valley, fiction, reviews
At Hawthorn Time

Book review: ‘At Hawthorn Time’ by Melissa Harrison

An extraordinary modern rural novel.

Published 03-Mar-2016
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: fiction, Melissa Harrison, reading, reviews
Darwin and Lady Hope
Darwin and Lady Hope

Book review: ‘Darwin and Lady Hope: the Untold Story’ by L.R. Croft

A dreadful book attempting to breathe new life into the long-discredited myth of Charles Darwin's deathbed conversion to evangelical Christianity. File under ‘Fiction’.

Published 15-Oct-2015
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: Charles Darwin, reading, religion, reviews
W.G. Sebald

Books by or about W. G. Sebald

A list of Sebald-related books reviewed on this site.

Published 01-Jan-2000
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction, History, People, Poetry Tags: W.G. Sebald

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