Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

The 2019 Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award shortlist

‘Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarczuk

3 novellas by Nawal El Saadawi, Olivia Laing and Roland Schimmelpfennig

2019 Stella Prize shortlist

‘The Boarding House’ by William Trevor

‘The Erratics’ by Vicki Laveau-Harvie

‘The History of Love’ by Nicole Krauss

‘Adèle’ by Leïla Slimani

‘Wedderburn: A True Tale of Blood and Dust’ by Maryrose Cuskelly

‘The Old Boys’ by William Trevor

‘First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers’ by Loung Ung

‘Song for an Approaching Storm’ by Peter Fröberg Idling

‘The Nowhere Child’ by Christian White

‘The Tall Man’ by Phoebe Locke

‘Cold Spring Harbor’ by Richard Yates

‘Whitefly’ by Abdelilah Hamdouchi

‘Take Me In’ by Sabine Durrant

‘Eggshells’ by Caitriona Lally

‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ by Ursula K Le Guin

‘Of Love and Hunger’ by Julian Maclaren-Ross