THE HOUSE WITH TWO LETTER-BOXES: Emma Storr reviews a collection of well-drawn short stories by Janet Swinney
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, fiction, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, society • 0 Comments
P – Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews a classic dystopia by D Rudd-Mitchell in which the individual is faced with a seemingly all-powerful Party
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, fiction, poetry • 0 Comments
BALLET FOR MURDERERS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a poetry and prose collection by Richard Wayne Horton
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, year 2021 • Tags: books, fiction, Paul McDonald • 0 Comments
Book Review – The Life in Us: Paul McDonald reviews an absorbing and touching novel by John Lucas
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, year 2021 • Tags: books, fiction, Rachael Smart • 0 Comments
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, Charles Rammelkamp, fiction • 0 Comments
SPINNING TO MARS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a collection of flash fiction by Meg Pokrass
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, year 2021 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, fiction • 0 Comments
YOU’RE PRETTY GAY: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a short story collection by Drew Pisarra
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, year 2021 • Tags: books, fiction, Louise Warren • 0 Comments
THE ONCE AND FUTURE MOON : Louise Warren investigates an anthology of speculative fiction compiled and edited by Allen Ashley
by Barbara Lewis • authors, books, fiction, year 2020 • Tags: authors, Barbara Lewis, books, fiction •
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.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, history, year 2020 • Tags: books, fiction, history, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • 0 Comments
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
by Barbara Lewis • books, fiction, psychology, psychotherapy, writing, year 2020 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, fiction, psychology, psychotherapy •
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.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, year 2022 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, fiction • 0 Comments
WRECKS AND RUINS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a complex new novel by Eric D. Goodman