Reviews

The Red Children

Maggie Gee's humorous meditation on migration, discrimination, global warming and an ongoing pandemic.

Music that seeks to build a platform for greater appreciation of the diversity of human cultures.

All the UK’s young pretenders in this collection will have to wait to seize Mike Phillips’ crown.

A novel revealing how the Great Depression triggers the suicide of a patriarch and forces exile to the provinces.

Siddique's poems are awash with immersive images of water; rivers, whirlpools and oceans.

A novel that compares asylum seekers trapped in detention to birds in a cage.

Matt Kay follows an ultra-runner, attempting to conquer the 184-mile Thames Path

A drug story that offers none of the wide-eyed super-drama Al Pacino has taught us to expect from the genre.

The narrator flits easily between a military camp overseas and a bookish childhood at home.

A tale of a mercurial rise from poverty and obscurity, and subsequent fall.