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 September 2026

Guest review by Jon Appleton: THE WELL by Elizabeth Jolley

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"Wickedly funny, harrowing, mischievous and moving, The Well deserves its status as modern Australian classic." Jon Appleton is ...
Monday, 7 September 2026

Special feature Q&A: John Ironmonger on THE ANGEL OF ST PIRAN

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  "Dr Kat Hoobaiter has documented a repertoire of around 80 distinct chimpanzee gestures, showing how apes use them intentionally. It ...
Monday, 31 August 2026

Guest review by Peter Crawley: THE JOURNAL OF HÉLÈNE BERR: a Young Jewish Woman's Life in Occupied Paris, translated from French by David Bellos

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  "The beauty in this in many ways tragic journal is the awakening of spirit, the blossoming of defiance and the hardening of determina...
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Monday, 24 August 2026

Special feature Q&A: Jane Dalton on her first novel THE SECOND LIFE OF ANTHONY B

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  Is someone playing a cruel trick, or is the impossible really happening? Photograph by Sarah Widdowson Jane Dalton is a journalist at The...
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Monday, 17 August 2026

Guest review by Cindy Jefferies: THE NEEDLE'S EYE by Margaret Drabble

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  "A master of her craft." First published in 2001 for children, Cindy Jefferies found success with her Fame School series with ...
Monday, 10 August 2026

Guest review by Jude Hayland: THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett

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  "A masterpiece that has long been overlooked as Bennett appears to have slipped out of bookish fashion." Initially a short story...
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Monday, 3 August 2026

Special feature: Q&A with Sue Purkiss about her first novel for adults, AN ORDINARY WAR

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  "I realised in the end that the Dad I knew wasn’t the young man who’d been through the war. Harry isn’t Dad, though they shared some ...
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