Paddy Crewe's debut novel My Name is Yip is a rollicking wild west adventure. Set during Georgia's Gold Rush, and bursting with linguistic invention, it brings to mind Melville, Faulkner, and Cormac McCarthy. Here's my review in the Guardian
Jude Cook
Thursday, 19 May 2022
I reviewed Sara Baume's third novel, Seven Steeples, a beautifully wrought paean to living off-grid, in the TLS
Monday, 7 March 2022
Here's my review of These Days, Lucy Caldwell's novel set during the Belfast Blitz of 1941, in the Literary Review
Monday, 21 February 2022
I reviewed Run and Hide, Pankaj Mishra's head-spinning chronicle of three graduates negotiating late capitalism and the New India, in the Spectator
Saturday, 19 February 2022
One of the best recent novels about twins is Renée Branum's debut, Defenestrate. Here's my review in the Guardian
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Alex Preston's fourth novel is an enormously enjoyable slice of 18th-century historical fiction set among the smugglers' coves of England's South Coast. Read my review of Winchelsea in the Literary Review
Thursday, 13 January 2022
I wrote about twins in literature and popular culture, from The Comedy of Errors to contemporary fiction, in the TLS