Writers Review

Book reviews by writers or independent booksellers, with occasional special features. We choose our own recommendations: fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, poetry, nature writing. We hope you'll enjoy our selections and keep coming back for more. Follow us on Facebook, X (Writersreview1) and Bluesky (@writersreview.bsky.social). Our new venture, Writers Review Publishing, launched in April - see website link in sidebar and Q&As with the authors.

Monday, 25 August 2025

Guest review by Linda Sargent: THE OLD WAYS - a Journey on Foot, by Robert Macfarlane

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  "What a complete joy it’s been, timely and so sustaining in these darkening times in our world." Linda Sargent is a writer who w...
Monday, 18 August 2025

Guest review by Graeme Fife: THE GO-BETWEEN by L P Hartley

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  "Hartley weaves a compelling net of intrigue and a brilliant portrayal of the starchy customs of aristocratic life ..." G raeme ...
Monday, 11 August 2025

Guest review by Sheena Wilkinson: LOVE FORMS by Claire Adam

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  "This is a novel huge in scope, with the action moving over decades and continents, but it is also a deeply personal, private story....
Monday, 4 August 2025

NINTH BIRTHDAY SPECIAL FEATURE: guest Michèle Roberts chooses OFFSHORE by Penelope Fitzgerald

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   "Her genius is to record her characters’ flounderings with infinite compassion. Her imagination works as a kind of embrace, both ten...
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Monday, 28 July 2025

SUMMER ROUND-UP by Adèle, Celia and Linda

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Adèle  Geras, Celia Rees and Linda Newbery are the hosts of Writers Review. Here we each share two books that have impressed us recently a...
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Monday, 21 July 2025

Guest review by Jane Rogers: STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL by Charlotte Wood

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"I first read  Stone Yard Devotional  in great greedy gulps. It is intense and nakedly personal, and left me wanting more on every page...
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Monday, 14 July 2025

Q&A: Alison Layland talks to Linda Newbery about her new novel AFTER THE CLEARANCES

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  "It's not only a Welsh community, but also a large-scale environmental stewardship project that is threatened with destruction, u...
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