Hamish Hamilton
Yoruba Boy Running
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Essentially, this is the story of Samuel Àjàyí Crowther, the first African Bishop in West Africa, but it doesn’t follow any ...Read Review
Burma Sahib
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In 1922, 19-year-old Eric Blair, upon graduating Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. It is later when his career turns to writing ...Read Review
The Fraud
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It is pleasant to have a historical novel written primarily about a historical novelist. Zadie Smith has made her first foray into historical ...Read Review
The Women of Troy
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In this immersive read, Pat Barker takes up the threads of her previous book, The Silence of the Girls, continuing the story after ...Read Review
How to Be Both
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This unusual novel is memorable as well as lyrical. Smith tells the story of a Renaissance artist and a 21st-century teenager who find ...Read Review
Gretel and the Dark
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As hinted by the title, Gretel and the Dark is a novel built on fairy tales. In fin-de-siècle Vienna, an eminent psychoanalyst ...Read Review
Blonde Roots
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Blonde Roots is the life story of a slave. Plucked from her family by pirates as a small girl, she is brutalised and ...Read Review
Life Class
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In early 1914, Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are students at the Slade School of Art’s life-drawing class run by the formidable Professor ...Read Review
The Ruby in Her Navel
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Set during the brief but glittering rule of the Norman kings, this beautifully written novel opens in Palermo where Arab, Christian and Jew ...Read Review
Afterlands
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In 1871 a thwarted American expedition to the Arctic casts 19 survivors adrift on an ice floe off the coast of Greenland – one white and ...Read Review
