Book Reviews

Simon’s Cat started off life as an internet animation that developed a cult following. The short films featuring a hungry cat on Youtube gained enough ... Read more »

Iain Banks’ new book is of a sort that Iain M Banks could have put his name to – because this book, though it has a (sort of) contemporary settin... Read more »

Reviews written for the paperback edition of this entertaining biography are pre-empted by the fact that Gray himself has written his own review of the book ... Read more »

Agnes Owens’ novellas are finally collected in the one place – and a good thing too, because they’re brilliant. The novella is an odd form:... Read more »

Yes, that Nick Cave, musician extraordinaire. This isn’t his first foray into fiction – he scripted a well-received film, the Australian Western ... Read more »

Jane McKie’s collection is largely about nature, and the poems here certainly seem charged with meaning. But in many of these poems McKie seems to be m... Read more »