The go-between

Richard Johnstone reviews Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders

09 May 13 | Comments (0)

Tears before bedtime

Richard Johnstone reviews Richard Hughes’s The Fox in the Attic

03 Apr 13 | Comments (0)

The youngish one

Richard Johnstone reviews Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist

06 Mar 13 | Comments (0)

Cerebral desire

Richard Johnstone reviews a new translation of André Maurois’s Climates

07 Feb 13 | Comments (0)

What’s in a name?

Richard Johnstone reviews Shiva Naipaul’s The Chip-Chip Gatherers

12 Jan 13 | Comments (0)

In Hollywood with Christopher Isherwood

Richard Johnstone reviews the newly reissued Prater Violet

11 Dec 12 | Comments (0)

Twin virtues

A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes Richard Johnstone

04 Nov 12 | Comments (0)

Scandinavian noir

Richard Johnstone on Scandinavia’s most influential crime writers

02 Oct 12 | Comments (0)

Up-to-date with a vengeance

Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Bram Stoker’s thoroughly modern Dracula

05 Sep 12 | Comments (0)

Another universe

Richard Johnstone reviews Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure

03 Aug 12 | Comments (0)

Landscape with figures

Richard Johnstone reviews William Maxwell’s The Château

04 Jul 12 | Comments (0)

An outsider at war

Richard Johnstone reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war

04 Jun 12 | Comments (0)

Simenon’s cool humanity

Richard Johnstone reviews a new edition of a classic novel

03 May 12 | Comments (0)

Cover stories

Richard Johnstone on Picador’s reissue of White Noise, and its fortieth anniversary cover design

04 Apr 12 | Comments (0)

How it went with the whale

Richard Johnstone reviews Matías Néspolo’s Seven Ways to Kill a Cat

01 Feb 12 | Comments (0)

Real-life melodrama

Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s

12 Jan 12 | Comments (0)

The real thing

Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages

02 Dec 11 | Comments (0)

Hanging by a thread

Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, I Curse the River of Time

01 Nov 11 | Comments (0)

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