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, 1 June 2026

Guest feature by Jon Appleton: 'This is the Time We Have' - my decade with Ann Patchett

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  "I’ve reviewed Ann Patchett’s most recent decade of writing here on Writers Review across various posts. Maybe you’ve been reading a...
Monday, 25 May 2026

Guest review by Nick Manns: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE by W G Hoskins

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  "Once you’ve spent time in Hoskins’ company, you start to interrogate a familiar world in a new way..." Nick Manns taught Engli...
Monday, 18 May 2026

Guest review by Cindy Jefferies: LISTEN WITH FATHER - HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE CLASSICAL MUSIC by Caroline Sanderson

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  "A wonderful journey full of fascinating asides." First published in 2001 for children, Cindy Jefferies found success with her ...
Monday, 11 May 2026

Special feature Q&A: Dennis Hamley talks about SPIRIT OF THE PLACE

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  "The cat is, in some ways, the most significant character in the book ... the cause of Fowler’s greatest sin and the subject of a fai...
Monday, 4 May 2026

Guest feature by Paul Dowswell: THE MANY-SPLENDOURED OBSCENITY OF VIZ

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  Paul Dowswell' s journey from foolish youth to mithered old codger is near to its end. In between these two points he has written so...
Monday, 27 April 2026

WRITERS REVIEW PUBLISHING marks its first birthday

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  Great reissues and new fiction - more on the way this year! Our new venture, an author publishing collaborative, launched last April with ...
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Monday, 20 April 2026

Guest review by Graeme Fife: THE ROMAN TRIUMPH by Mary Beard

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  " Beard’s book offers at least an inkling into an answer … never   the   answer, and that is the mark of an outstanding historian and...
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