Paraic O’Donnell
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Lily by Rose tremain
Rose Tremain has produced a period melodrama. It’s not clear that she intended to.
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The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore
The poet A.K. Blakemore’s debut novel is a thing of excoriating beauty.
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The Reacher Guy by Heather Martin
In Heather Martin’s life of Lee Child, a skilled biographer encounters a wily and self-mythologising subject.
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In Conversation with Lee Child
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Lee Child for CrimeReads.com. We talked about the problem…
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
“The beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite”: I reviewed Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi for…
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NVK by Temple Drake
I reviewed Temple Drake’s NVK, a slick and hypermodern fable of vampirism and sexual politics.