Here's my review of Éric Vuillard's An Honourable Exit, a cool and compact 'factual novel' about French colonial exploitation in Indochina. TLS

I wrote about Michael Arditti's rich and engrossing novel of art, faith and morality, The Choice, in the The Spectator

I reviewed Xiaolu Guo's memoir Radical, an intellectually rich and stimulating exploration of language and female emancipation, in the Guardian

Lydia Sandgren's Collected Works is a satisfying Franzenian doorstopper of a novel. Sometimes the traditional pleasures of character and narrative trump experiments with form. Here's my review in the Spectator

Kimberley C. Patton's Gemini and the Sacred is a capacious and erudite anthology of essays on twins and twinship in religion and mythology. Here's my review in the TLS

 I reviewed Catherine Lacey's ambitious and super-inventive new novel, Biography of X, in the TLS

Sebastian Barry's superb new novel is a deep exploration of the 'sad stations of memory' set on Ireland's Dalkey coastline. Here's my piece in the Literary Review