Bookshop Reviews – Archive

Helen Simonson sets her new novel, "The Summer Before the War," in the summer of 1914 when Europe...

A welcome return to longer picture books from Emily Gravett, after her delightful series for...

Sunjeev Sahota’s first novel Ours Are The Streets gained him a place on the Granta Best of Young...

Yasmin is fifteen, fat and in her words “a freak”, compulsively drawn to beautiful Alice Taylor...

Anne Jaccob is the daughter of a well-to-do family, though material comforts do nothing to soften...

Published last March, this exciting and contemporary thriller follows the fortunes of Dan, a young...

Creative collaborators Alexis Deacon and Viviane Schwarz were behind the wonderful ‘A Place to...

Look no further if you’re hoping to banish the February blues with a laugh-out-loud feel-good...

Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life (which won the Costa book award in 2013) introduced readers to the...