Gesa Stedman looks at recent and not quite so recent prize winners, Frankfurt book fair debates, special issues on disability and LGTBQI+ respectively, published by The Bookseller, and wonders where climate change has disappeared to – again. Read more
Today, I have the great honour to join the blog tour for Neil Bartlett’s Address Book, published on 4 November by the fabulous indie publisher Inkandescent, with this review. In Address Book, we experience seven different stories set in different times and places, including a flat in Clerkenwell in 1891 […] Read more
Not even the pandemic could stop art being a sought-after topic on the book market, as art novels, colouring books, art history publications or lavish coffee table books came up for publication in the past year or two. Gesa Stedman takes an interested, if critical look at recent Read more
Isabella Kremer reviews Gail Honeyman’s debut novel Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins, 2017) for Literary Field Kaleidoscope. The novel won the Costa Debut Novel Award and three accolades at the British Book Awards (2018): Debut of the Year, Overall Winner and Marketing Campaign of the Year (it was indeed […] Read more
Second novels are often a difficult transitional achievement. Our reviewer Taylor Hebert was disappointed by Eimar McBride’s The Lesser Bohemians. During a pandemic, it reminds us of the cultural world as it used to be but whether nostalgia coupled with laboured stylishness will help us through these times is questionable. Read more
One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed novels of 2019 has just been adapted for television by the BBC: Sally Rooney’s second novel Normal People, a run-away success from Ireland to which readers all over the Anglophone world seem to relate. It was also Waterstone’s controversial choice of book of the […] Read more
Our guest author Patrick Helber writes about Liv Strömquist’s new feministist Comic Ich fühl’s nicht, which was translated into German by Katharina Erben and published by Avant Verlag. In ihrem neuen feministischen Comic Ich fühl’s nicht, nimmt die schwedische Politikwissenschaftlerin und Zeichnerin Liv Strömquist das gegenwärtige Beziehungsverhalten von Menschen im globalen […] Read more
Today, Chiara Harrison Lambe, a student at the Centre for British Studies in Berlin, shares her review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go (Faber, 2005) and claims that it hasn’t lost any of its emotional force over the years. Never Let Me Go opens with its narrator, Kathy […] Read more
Gesa Stedman comments on recent publications from Scotland, ranging from novels to Read more
In our new format we are going to write about books we are currently reading. This is an experiment and a work-in-progress. So please don’t expect a polished review or an in-depth reading with final conclusions and what not. What we want to do in this category is to give […] Read more
