YOU’RE PRETTY GAY: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a short story collection by Drew Pisarra
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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.
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
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.
P W Bridgman confesses himself pleasantly surprised by an unorthodox combination of poetry collection and murder mystery: he promises however that his review contains no spoilers.
The over-arching title of this eight-volume novel brings to mind the Rougon-Macquart. The comparison is apposite because while Zola structures his series around his faith in biological determinism, Dent’s novel dismisses it as a delusion.
As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.
So far, critics seem to agree that Egan has eschewed experimentation on this occasion and turned her hand to an old-fashioned crime thriller wrapped in an historical novel.
Concluding the London Grip serial story for Christmas
Continuing the London Grip serial story for Christmas
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