FONTAINES DC fly high in Swansea as indie high-climbers hit arena circuit
By the time we reached Fontaines DC's anthemic encore, there was a sense the night had been another job well done for one of the best bands around.
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Slam poetry champ Harry Baker struggles to break through on-page in UNASHAMED
On paper, Harry Baker’s new collection, Unashamed, should be worth attention. Unfortunately, these poems rarely come to life
DAVID TOMS writes poetically about living with a heart condition in PACEMAKER
A moving, personal account, Pacemaker is a story of hope and for the desire to keep going.
Ahead of her time: Ann Quin’s final novel TRIPTICKS is a wild ride through capitalist America
As more and more writers try to break away from the conventional form of the novel, Quin was already doing it, and better, 50 years ago.
BROTHER ALIVE: family ties, secrets & shapeshifters in Zain Khalid’s impressive debut
Zain Khalid’s assured debut novel, Brother Alive, is an impressive feat of literary ambition and intellectual heft.
BONSAI: a starkly simple story of love & literature in Chile
Bonsai is a novel about love and literature, and about love being expressed through the shared experience of literature.
STILL BORN presents a moving & nuanced exploration of motherhood
Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel’s fourth novel, is a moving, nuanced exploration of motherhood and the complexity of the maternal instinct.
THE WAR FOR GLORIA: Atticus Lish’s ALS portrait is (almost) an American classic
The War For Gloria is a huge, occasionally heartbreaking story by Atticus Lish about a young man forced to come of age before his time. And with more focus, Lish could have written a classic.
Emilie Pine’s debut novel RUTH & PEN is a moving portrait of love & grief
Set over the course of a single day in Dublin, acclaimed essayist Emilie Pine’s debut novel tells the separate, overlapping stories of its eponymous characters.
WE MOVE collects sensitive short stories about the South Asian experience
In this golden age of the short story, it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd, but Gurnaik Johal has managed to achieve just that with his debut collection, We Move.
THE UNDERCURRENTS vividly brings Berlin history to the present
A hybrid of memoir, history, and literary exploration, The Undercurrents defies easy, fixed definition, the same way that history does.
DANCE MOVE is filled with mostly brilliant stories – but not all are knockouts
Wendy Erskine’s first short story collection, Sweet Home, marked the arrival of a distinctive new talent -Dance Move cements it.