SPINNING TO MARS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a collection of flash fiction by Meg Pokrass
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DAY OF DAYS: Charles Rammelkamp admires a powerful fact-based novel by John Smolens about a school bombing in 1927
YOU’RE PRETTY GAY: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a short story collection by Drew Pisarra
Book review – LOSER: Thomas Ovans examines John Fuller’s well-observed story of 21st century angst.
THE ONCE AND FUTURE MOON : Louise Warren investigates an anthology of speculative fiction compiled and edited by Allen Ashley
C.J. Cooke, also known as Carolyn Jess-Cooke, is formidable in her achievements. An award-winning poet, novelist, academic and mother of four, her latest work is a text-book example for her creative writing students of how to write a tense page-turner that presses all the right buttons.
THE HOUSE WITH THREE EYES: John Lucas encounters a page-turner in John Harding’s atmospheric novel about mysterious events in Venice
Book review – THE PRISONER’S WIFE: this remarkable novel by Maggie Brookes is based on a true story and tells of an almost incredible deception successfully carried out during World War Two
Malcolm Carson reviews Remembered Acts, the most recent novel by John Lucas
Virgin & Child: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is intrigued by a new novel by Maggie Hamand in which a theological conundrum leads to tension – and ultimately violence – within the Vatican
Psychoanalytic psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld published her meditation, as her publicist so aptly describes it, on her own journey from an intellectual understanding to a deep, personal grasp of Freud’s distinction between harrowing grief and the gentler sorrow of mourning in February – when today’s equivalent of Spanish flu had begun to throw wives, husbands, children, lovers across the globe into states of emotion they may never fully process.
EVERY SEVENTH WAVE : Rachael Smart considers Tom Vowler’s tense novel set in the grim world of human trafficking
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, year 2021 • Tags: books, fiction, Rachael Smart