Edward Docx's compelling new novel, Let Go My Hand, explores fathers and sons, mortality, and the blended family. Here's my review in the Spectator

The good people at The Stockholm Review have run a story of mine in their new issue. Read 'Tomatoes' here

The American short story renaissance continues with this collection of refugee tales, In the Country, from US-based Filipino writer, Mia Alvar. Out for a while now, I review it for Structo

Here's my review of Ross Raisin's exceptional new novel, A Natural (which explores how a secretly gay player negotiates the macho world of Premier League football), for the Guardian

 

An American short story Renaissance? Here's my review of four fierce new collections:

Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees, 

April Ayers Lawson's Virgin and Other Stories, 

Roxane Gay's Difficult Women, 

Ottessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World Literary Review

I review two strong novels exploring refugees, migration and borders - Dorit Rabinyan's All the Rivers, and Armando Lucas Correa's The German Girl - for Litro

My book of the year was Tony Tulathimutte's Private Citizens. Here's a round-up of the best fiction of 2016 for Review 31