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...

INTERVIEW - Brett Battles, author of THE CLEANER and THE DECEIVED

About a year ago, we reviewed one of the best new thrillers this reviewer had read in years. THE CLEANER was a breath of fresh air, a real a...

SENSELESS by Stona Fitch

Two Ravens Press , £8.99, ISBN 978-1906120313 There is a theory that the best of novels engage in an ongoing dialogue with their readers....

Guest Review by Tony Black- SANCTUARY by Ken Bruen

Transworld, June 2008 , £17.99, ISBN978-1848270275 , SANCTUARY is the seventh, and possibly final, installment in the Galway-based Jack Tayl...

THE EVIL THAT MEN DO by Dave White

Three Rivers Press, 2008, 978-0307382795, $13.95 Jackson Donne is back. The Jersey PI, last seen in Dave White’s debut novel, When One Man...