I reviewed Jo Ann Beard's taut, poignant novella, Cheri, in the Literary Review

I reviewed The Black Eden, Richard T. Kelly's epic novel of North Sea oil exploitation, in the Guardian

I will be talking with Amanda Craig about her immersive, Tuscany-set new novel The Three Graces at the Owl Bookshop Kentish Town, on Tues 11th July 6.30pm. Do come along. Tickets here

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