Category: Literary novels

Butter by Asako Yuzuki

A powerful feminist take on body image, food and women’s pleasure

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

Mostly entertaining mash up of literary whodunnit and cli-fi

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

Alice in the underworld

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Coming of age for a scholarship girl at a posh boarding school

Ghost Cities by Siang Lu

Funny & fabulous satire skewers power, bureaucracy & media

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

A fun & intelligent update of Pride & Prejudice

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

Observational, gently humorous & wholly engrossing

Rapture by Emily Maguire

Compelling & uplifting historical fiction

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

A sensitive story about being torn between the old & the new (mini-review)

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Engaging historical fiction about deception, privilege & colonialism (mini-review)