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October 13, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Crime fiction from Will Dean, picture-heavy rock biography on Joy Division and New Order, musings on music by Kelefa Sanneh, the manifesto of Bernardine Evaristo and Rowan Jacobson's 'Truffle Hound'.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

October 6, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Reviews of newly published titles by Ruth Ozeki, JR Moores, Annie Ernaux, Kate Bowler and Montserrat Roig (that one's newly translated from Catalan to English)

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 29, 2021 by Noel Gardner

From a post-Atwood dystopian novel, to a snazzy hardback history of wildlife photography, to the latest from TV's Richard Osman, to some brief thoughts on spaghetti, to comedian Phil Wang on racial identity... we get this week's books column.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 22, 2021 by Noel Gardner

In between titles offering broadsides against, respectively, bad food on trains and Welsh neoliberalism, we find novels about Turkish gangsters in London, a world without working electricity and a man who get uploaded into his group chat...

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 8, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Punk rock tour diaries, Black Mirror-esque speculative fiction, thoughts on cultural and racial dividing lines in Britain, photographs from Troubles-era Northern Ireland, and a couple who encounter uncanny situations when they travel to adopt a child.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 1, 2021 by Noel Gardner

A crime-heavy week (with a bit of feminist sci-fi for good measure) as we ease into September with five new novels.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

August 25, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Murderous thrillers, Russian historical fiction, a perfume-scented journey to 19th-century Edinburgh, explorations of identity and belonging, and a graphic novel devised by Line Of Duty's main brain.

NEW POETRY COLUMN: AUGUST | FEATURE

August 23, 2021 by Noel Gardner

nth, Mab Jones returns with the next of her monthly roundups of contemporary independent poetry. Everything from Powys owls to Jim Morrison to mythical Cornish lands awaits…

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

August 18, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Including a familial rock memoir from Baxter Dury, ruminations on vintage UK TV by Rob Young and a marquee late-summer novel release by Leïla Slimani.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

August 11, 2021 by Noel Gardner

This week's books include a Southern Gothic novel by Bethany W Pope, a UK-Cypriot search for identity by Elif Shafak, and Séamas O’Reilly's bereavement memoir.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

August 4, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Including reviews of the debut novel by TV's Isy Suttie, a 1971 novel set in Franco-era Catalonia and a visual history of the Garw Valley.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

July 28, 2021 by Noel Gardner

Relationship drama, an experimental Welsh novel, Greek mythology updated for the celeb era, the cultural implications of Chinese ear-cleaning and an illicit tryst in a summer house...

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

NEW POETRY COLUMN: AUGUST | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

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