Here's my review of Chris Power's compelling and memorable debut collection of short stories, Mothers, in the TLS

Diana Evans' new novel Ordinary People is a forensic study of relationships, focussing on two couples in late noughties' London, with echoes of Zadie Smith, Richard Yates and John Updike. Here's my piece for the Literary Review

The essential and timely anthology Protest from Comma Press is published in paperback in April. Here's my review for Structo

My review of Philip Hensher's capacious, compelling new novel The Friendly Ones, for the i-Paper

Six of the best short story collections last year were by Akhil Sharma, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, David Hayden, Joanna Walsh, Jeffrey Eugenides & William Boyd. Here's my round-up for the Spectator

A Christmas Day Backlisted podcast with Andy Miller, John Mitchinson, James Cook and me discussing Ian Fleming, Bond, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Listen here

One of my favourite books of the year was Tom Rachman's collection of Trump tales, Basket of Deplorables. Here's my piece for Review 31