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A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk

I was reading Orhan Pamuk’s Snow in London recently, when a Scottish man stopped me to say how much he’d enjoyed…

Don Paterson, 40 Sonnets 56pp, Faber, £14.99 Paterson is at his best when writing about heartbreak. “The Six,” this reviewer’s…

The New World Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz Granta, £12.99 (paperback) The New World opens grippingly by immersing the reader…

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt ‘Cheerily, then, as one making teatime conversation, she asked “do you yourself ever think of…

The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury, £18.99 Reworked from an e-serial, Atwood’s latest novel is as captivating and humorous…

Jonathan Franzen likes big books. Each one of his critically acclaimed works are weighty door-stoppers but their tangible size in…

Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks In Where My Heart Used to Beat, we witness the transformation…

It is not practiced perfection that hits the right note in Ian McEwan’s most recent novel but the gloriously amateur, both…

Howard Jacobson once joked that one day he might attempt to write a book without the letter J, and his…

Damon Galgut, the South African writer has proven he is a writer of quality with books such as The Good…

What is the value of two seconds? For one inquisitive eleven-year old Byron, it is “the difference between something happening…

On the back cover of Room by Emma Donoghue, I read: ‘To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world…’ Far from…

Sebastian Barry unfailingly gives us novels that display great craft and depth such as The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, Annie…

James Aitchison An Almost Dancer . An Almost Dancer, Robert Nye, Greenwich Exchange, pp. 58, £7.99. A poem is…