Reviews

Essays on entomology.

Arra has never spoken a word, but has learnt to recognise and sing all the songs of the trees and the river.

This picture book for three to six year olds is a welcome addition to any child’s bookshelf but to their parents’ coffee table as well.

Who in their right mind would speak up for a paedophile island?

As we move smoothly and cinematically between locations, we sense that a secondary purpose of the author is to muddy the division between autobiography and fiction. Even our own lives are stories, after all, in which we figure as the heroes. Can anyone know this better than a filmmaker?

Thought-provoking non-fiction on how women are left out of the study of economics and human behaviour, and how this affects human understanding of the world economy.

An interesting blend of social realism and crime fiction.

These plays provide a genuinely compelling narrative experience in their own right.

A great source of information and an articulate companion to crime fiction as a literary genre.

Intelligent discussion of democratic political processes.

This is a novel about gender. It is about coming to terms with the fact that in our society you are sorted into the ‘not powerful’ category of people if you happen to have a female body.

The Agency of the title is a London theatre agency, run by a larger-than-life character called Semolina Pritchard.

A delightful comedy with touches of realism.

An original and humorous novel capturing not only quintessentially Swedish, but also very western phenomena of modern life.

A comprehensive study of the rise of right-wing extremism in Europe by a knowledgeable and brave journalist.

The reader eavesdrops on a nocturnal phone conversation with a friend, in which the events of the day slowly unfold.

Everything about Linda Olsson’s writing is permeated by nature, gentleness, longing and loving. She makes it personal, drawing you slowly but inevitably into her story, so that you care about the characters, as if they were your own kin.

At the end of the 20th century, traditional student privilege is being eroded and success is no longer guaranteed.