My overall Book of the Year for 2019 was Valeria Luiselli's peerless and fiercely political novel about the Mexican border migrant crisis, Lost Children Archive. Here's my piece for Review 31

I reviewed Benjamin Markovits' immersive second instalment of the Essingers saga, Christmas in Austin, for the Literary Review

Here's my review of Isabel Waidner's slyly subversive, Goldsmiths-prize shortlisted novel, We are Made of Diamond Stuff, in the Guardian

I wrote about Toby Litt's extraordinary new novel, Patience, in the TLS

Lee Rourke's third novel, Glitch, is a powerful portrait of a son coming to terms with the death of his mother. Here's my review in the Guardian

I reviewed Grand Union, Zadie Smith's impressively diverse and energising first collection of short stories, in the i-paper

Salman Rushdie's new novel, Quichotte, is a Pynchonesque take on Cervantes, and a significant return to form. I reviewed it for the i-paper