Scottish music in 1983
This is Memorial Device, David Keenan, Faber and Faber, February 2017, pp.304, £14.99 (paperback) News of the death, back in…
In A Raw State
Crude, Sally O’Reilly, Eros Press, October 2016, £12.00 (paperback) There are no talking telescreens or robot slaves in the fictive…
A Mosaic of Memories
War and Turpentine, Stefan Hertmans trans. David McKay, Harvill Secker, 2016, £8.99 (paperback) ‘People from the age of Europe’s…
Muslim Arrivals, Old and New
The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London, Nile Green, Princeton University Press, 2015, 416pp,…
Political Interventions
Graham Greene: Political Writer, Michael G. Brennan, 2016, Palgrave Macmillan, 208pp, £58 (hardcover) In an interview with the Evening Standard…
Libertarian Disposition
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918, D. J. Taylor, Chatto & Windus, 528pp, 2016, £25 (hardcover)…