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‘Genrely’ speaking this is a memoir but it actually reads like a Who’s Who of American literature in the 70s and 80s. And then you add New Y...

   A collection of short stories is always a treat but even more so under the fluent pen of Rebecca Miller. This collection is diverse, yet ...

  By and large I’m not a person who favours any kind of compartmentalising. But I acknowledge that many people have this need and for matter...

I found this to be a most unusual and unique book. There were times when I felt it was less fiction than the biography of an Icelandic midwi...

Whilst not a new subject for a work of fiction, I was reminded quite forcibly of Victoria Mas’s The Mad Woman’s Ball, Noel O’Reilly’s take o...

If the dark,noir narrative of A Man Named Doll, tickled your Chandleresque yearnings, you’ll be delighted with this next story in the series...

   I always feel there’s something slightly underhand, immoral even, about reading someone else’s diaries. As a journal/diarist myself I wou...