by Phil Clement | Jun 29, 2016 | Front page, Reviews
Review by Phillip Clement Last year marked a hundred years since Albert Einstein published forty-six pages that would come to change the course of human history and everything around it. His Special and General Theory heralded a new way of thinking in physics,...
by Adam | Jun 13, 2016 | Reviews
The Arrival of Missives could be classed, amongst other things, as a coming-of-age story, a fantasy novel, soft environmentalism, an anti-authoritarian fable and a sci-fi-tinged forbidden love story. This might sound like an unwieldy melange, but Aliya Whitely manages...
by Euan | Feb 26, 2016 | Reviews
There has been a glut of recent books – I am thinking of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, or Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, or Ben Lerner’s 10:04 – that dramatise the process of writing. Salinger’s Letters, the new novel by the Danish writer Nils Schou, does...
by Christine | May 28, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
Should I be a loner? Or be in a gang. Paul McVeigh’s ambitious debut pits the half-term struggles of a pre-adolescent boy in the tempestuous run-up to his first day of ‘Big School’, against the explosive, sectarian world of Belfast’s Ardoyne during The Troubles. I...
