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, 5 October 2026

Guest review by Anna Caig: HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi

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  "If it’s true that ‘history is written by the victors’, then fiction not only has an important role to play in retelling history from...
Monday, 28 September 2026

Guest review by Graeme Fife: STILL - a mindful practice for photographers, by Paul Sanders

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  "Superb account of a mind near broken and repaired, through the curative hard task of art and creativity ... " Graeme Fife is a...
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Monday, 21 September 2026

Guest review by Sarah LeFanu: KINDRED by Octavia E Butler

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  "Butler is acclaimed ... not just for her trail-blazing dual role as a Black woman writer of SF but for the way she embraced its rich...
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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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