by Helen Ivory | Jan 19, 2013 | Reviews
The first thing to be said about Sarah Dobbs’ debut novel is that it does not, in fact, involve killing Daniel. Daniel, the shy deaf boy whose gentle love for Fleur seems, at the outset, to...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 12, 2013 | Reviews
Cabby or Charon? The back-seat of a cab, anywhere in the world: it’s a fair bet that all of life has been played out there at one time or another. The taxi in question here is that driven by American poet...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 23, 2012 | Reviews
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Our western image of Chinese industrialisation, and the boom in the country’s economy since the most extreme rigidities of communism began to relax in the 1970s, is Dickensian. When...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 12, 2012 | Reviews
I recently went to the Book Hive (a well known book shop in the centre of Norwich) for the first launch of...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 9, 2012 | Reviews
An Unscheduled Life is a handsomely produced collaboration between the poet Joseph Horgan and the artist Brian Whelan. Born in Birmingham and London...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 23, 2012 | Reviews
Daniel Sluman’s first collection, Absence has a weight of its own, is tautly written and often provocative, a book that demands not to be left too long alone on the shelf....
