Books597 total entries
SORT BY: SEARCH FOR:
Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
1
New this week Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Released: 18/06/2013 Headline
Gaiman has spent his career dreaming up dark fantasy worlds and is perhaps best known for his popular graphic novel series Sandman. Recipient of countless awards and prizes, he has also turned his hand to teen and grown up fiction, TV and film. In his new novel, a Pandora's box of spirits is unleashed in rural Sussex when a mysterious man steals a car and then commits suicide.
More information Buy Comment
Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
7
Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
Released: 06/06/2013 Harvill Secker
Kushner's follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Telex from Cuba (2008) has received near unanimously positive reviews in the States and has the support of fellow novelist Jonathan Franzen (who doesn't?). Set in 1977, the plot follows college graduate Reno as she makes a pilgrimage east and integrates herself into New York's bourgeoning avant-garde art scene.
Rated 82
82%
More information Buy Comment
James Robertson - The Professor of Truth
5
James Robertson - The Professor of Truth
Released: 06/06/2013 Penguin
Robertson is widely considered one of Scotland's greatest living writers. This follows his 700-page saga And the Land Lay Still, and is inspired by that most protracted of murder inquiries, the Lockerbie investigation. Alan Tealing still grieves the death of his wife and daughter in a bombing 21 years ago. A breakthrough in the case leads him to Australia and, perhaps, closure.
Rated 76 %
76%
More information Buy Comment
Jonathan Dee  - A Thousand Pardons
4
Jonathan Dee - A Thousand Pardons
Released: 23/05/2013 Corsair
Helen's husband makes a mistake, a large, publicly humiliating one that ends their marriage. She is thrown back to the workplace after many years as a high-profile wife, and finds herself remarkably good at it, much more so than dealing with her familial mess. Dee's last book, a highly-praised study of the American rich, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Rated 60 %
60%
More information Comment
Michel Rostain - The Son
0
Michel Rostain - The Son
Released: 23/05/2013 Tinder Press
Part memoir, part fiction, Michel Rostain's debut explores his own and his family's grief at the sudden death of his only son Lion from meningitis - all told through Lion's eyes. Wit and wisdom pervade this original and intensely personal story that won the French author the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2011 (once controversially awarded to Proust).
More information Buy Comment
James Salter - All That Is
11
James Salter - All That Is
Released: 23/05/2013 Picador
More than 30 years after the publication of his last book, 87-year-old writers' writer James Salter is back. This is a typically hard-edged and terse novel set in the wake of World War II, which follows former officer Philip Bowman's sexual exploits and his rise to notoriety within Manhattan's booming publishing scene.
Rated 78 %
78%
More information Comment
Gill Hornby - The Hive
4
Gill Hornby - The Hive
Released: 23/05/2013 Little, Brown
Former Telegraph columnist Gill Hornby makes her fiction debut with a novel exploring female friendship and the dirty politics of primary school committees. Over the course of a school year a group of women battle for power on the fundraising committee of St Ambrose's. Sounds like a dog-eat-dog world.
Rated 75 %
75%
More information Buy Comment
Khaled Hosseini - And The Mountains Echoed
6
Khaled Hosseini - And The Mountains Echoed
Released: 21/05/2013 Bloomsbury
Set in Afghanistan in 1952, this new book from the author of the international hit The Kite Runner (adapted for the screen and now the stage) concerns sibling unity, as a poverty-stricken brother and sister undertake a life-changing journey across the desert. This is his third novel, and follows the critically acclaimed and similarly epic A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Rated 65 %
65%
More information Buy Comment
Louise Erdrich - The Round House
6
Louise Erdrich - The Round House
Released: 16/05/2013 Corsair
After suffering a horrific attack on a North American reservation, the life of native woman Geraldine Coutts is changed forever - but so too is that of her 13-year-old son, Joe. With his father failing in a quest for justice, Joe takes matters into his own hands. Erdrich's latest beat some big hitters to America's exalted National Book Award in 2012.
Rated 70 %
70%
More information Buy Comment
Paul Auster & JM Coetzee - Here and Now
4
Paul Auster & JM Coetzee - Here and Now
Released: 16/05/2013 Faber
In this collection of correspondences between literary behemoths and close friends Paul Auster and JM Coetzee, the two luddites exchange letters, discussing subjects ranging from sport, film and politics to incest and art (no doubt revealing a few nuggets of wisdom for aspiring writers along the way).
Rated 70 %
70%
More information Buy Video Comment
CultureCritic gives you all the latest arts and entertainment reviews. Write a review, set up your critic circle... Sign up now.
Critometer
Ads 
  • CC Twitter 10.09
  • Milton Keynes
  • button-test-duchamp
  • Love Art London