Book Reviews

365 party girl (with feelings)

Aria Aber’s Good Girl, reviewed

Feb 17 • Jack Edwards

Nepo Baby: The Musical

Mark Ronson's Night People, reviewed

Feb 10 • Jack Edwards

The heart has many chambers

Lily King’s Heart The Lover, reviewed

Dec 19, 2025 • Jack Edwards

You are more than a footnote in someone else’s biography

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, reviewed

Dec 9, 2025 • Jack Edwards

Nothing weighs more than other people’s belief in you

Fredrik Backman's My Friends, reviewed (tr. Neil Smith)

Dec 8, 2025 • Jack Edwards

A penny for your thoughts?

Yasmin Zaher’s The Coin, reviewed

Oct 1, 2025 • Jack Edwards

I am, once again, crying over an Irish novel

Fíona Scarlett’s May All Your Skies Be Blue, reviewed

Sep 15, 2025 • Jack Edwards

Living for the hope of it all

John Williams' Stoner, reviewed

Aug 20, 2025 • Jack Edwards

The debut novel; or, a 300-page therapy session

William Rayfet Hunter’s Sunstruck, reviewed

Aug 9, 2025 • Jack Edwards

Plot holes and plotholes: revelling in the un-reality of Japanese fiction

Hiroko Oyamada’s The Hole (tr. David Boyd), reviewed

Aug 6, 2025 • Jack Edwards

The hottest book of the summer (literally, it’s set during a heatwave)

Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends. reviewed

Jul 31, 2025 • Jack Edwards

The antidote to AI-generated art is a carrier bag

Rachel Cusk's Parade, reviewed

Jul 29, 2025 • Jack Edwards

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