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, 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...
Monday, 7 July 2025

Guest review by Nick Hodges: THIS BIRDING LIFE by Stephen Moss

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  "Moss can see an everyday bird and take pleasure from it - every day. His enthusiasm is catching: boundless." Photograph with ki...
Monday, 30 June 2025

LOST ANIMALS, DISAPPEARING WORLDS - STORIES OF EXTINCTIONS by Barbara Allen, reviewed by Linda Newbery

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  "Allen says that she wrote this book 'accompanied by many tears', but warns that it is too easy to judge the generations that...
Monday, 23 June 2025

Guest review by Dennis Hamley: THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE by Jonathan Coe

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  "A superb book. You’ll have to work hard at it. But the rewards are intensely satisfying."  Dennis Hamley 's first novel, Pa...
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Monday, 16 June 2025

Guest review by Cindy Jefferies: ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey

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  "This jewel of a book is out there, like our beautiful planet in space; silent, modest, wonderful, waiting to be found." First p...
Monday, 9 June 2025

Guest review by Emma Pass: THE MIDNIGHT HOUR by Eve Chase

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  "Primarily a mystery, but it turned out to be so much more ..." Emma Pass has been making up stories for as long as she can rem...
Monday, 2 June 2025

Guest review by Laura Parker: LAND BENEATH THE WAVES by Nic Wilson

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"At one level, this is the story of how the natural world entranced, comforted and sustained her as she developed her expert eye ... th...
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