AUDITION - Ryu Murakami

Bloomsbury, 2009, ISBN 9780747589488, £10 A couple of years ago, a friend passed me a copy of In the Miso Soup, with the warning that it wa...

THE BIG O by Declan Burke - guest review by Tony Black

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0151014088 Declan Burke has been on quite a trip with his hugely-acclaimed second novel, The Big O...

The Books of the Year

Russel has been a little slow with reviews lately. However, for some of his top reads of the year, and also those of other respected critics...