Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

‘Penance’ by Kanae Minato

20 books of summer recap

‘Mr Bridge’ by Evan S. Connell

‘The Jesus Man’ by Christos Tsiolkas

‘In a Strange Room’ by Damon Galgut

‘Why Rock the Boat’ by William Weintraub

‘The Trick is to Keep Breathing’ by Janice Galloway

‘Instructions for a Heatwave’ by Maggie O’Farrell

‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ by Nathanael West

‘The Long Prospect’ by Elizabeth Harrower

‘The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman’ by Denis Thériault

‘Beastings’ by Benjamin Myers

‘The Devil’s Staircase’ by Helen FitzGerald

‘Our Souls at Night’ by Kent Haruf

‘The Bed I Made’ by Lucie Whitehouse

‘Provocation’ by Charlotte Grimshaw

‘Snow Country’ by Yasunari Kawabata

‘Careful, He Might Hear You’ by Sumner Locke Elliott

‘The Waking of Willie Ryan’ by John Broderick

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood