Pittenweem Library reviews
Helen Macdonald states that her latest book represents a ‘love for the glittering world of non-human life around me’ and that the short essay form can create a ‘fierce, concentrated attention’ that longer works may not achieve.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell, the much lauded novel by the British author Maggie O’Farrell now lives in Edinburgh.
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut. This intriguing and complex work was shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize.
The central character in the Old Filth trilogy (Failed in London, try Hong Kong), Sir Edward Feathers QC, has been compared in the New York Times to ‘the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters’.
Raw Spirit, by Iain Banks, represents the satisfying combination of travelling with a purpose – searching for the perfect dram of the title.
Joanna Trollope has been writing for over 30 years, is classified as a romantic novelist and admits to being a more social than political writer.
Review of The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Clare Chambers has several critically acclaimed novels of different genres behind her
Kate Weinberg's debut novel, The Truants, appeared to great acclaim – one of the New York Times Book Review's Top Ten Best Crime Novels of 2020
This is a historical novel – a dynastic family saga set against a well written, extraordinarily well researched history, principally of Burma. Three countries are involved in the tale: Burma, Malaya and India (the older terminology is used deliberately here). There are three elements. First, the end of the Burmese monarchy and the shameful (?) role of the British in…