I reviewed The Long Knives, the second book in Irvine Welsh's Lennox Trilogy, in the Literary Review
Jude Cook
Wednesday, 3 August 2022
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
I will be at the Margate Bookie Literary Festival on Sunday 5th June in conversation with novelist and publisher Sam Mills, talking about the pleasures and pains of writing fiction and non-fiction. More info & tickets here
Thursday, 19 May 2022
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
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