Kim Evans

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Book Review: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem

‘Post Trumpian’ writing, if that’s the coined phrase yet, has been predominantly focussed on non-fiction…

Book Review: The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

Like the chorus of mosquitoes that narrate this electrifying debut, there has been plenty of…

Book Review: My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

The question of how far you would go to protect your family is the running…

Best Books of 2018: Normal People, The Toymakers, The Cruel Prince and more

Before we allow ourselves to get too excited by the promise of another great year…

Why you should be watching Castle Rock

For long time fans of Stephen King, the past couple of years have seemed like…

Book Review: The Lingering by SJI Holliday

If you’re not done already with feasting yourself on the current (and welcome, in my…

Book Review: States of Passion by Nihad Sirees

A Chinese box style story–within-a-story frames this novel’s focus on women-only dancing groups of 1970’s…

Book Review: House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

A rather silly, but eminent author recently proclaimed that the ‘novel was dead’, to much…

Book Review: The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

It’s surely impossible for anyone to finish the memoir of Clemantine Wamariya and not simply…

Book Review: The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm

In an apt opening to what is a cold and lonely story, we meet the…

Book Review: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

This compact and yet epically staged family drama is the debut novel of Hala Alyan,…

Book Review: Fire on the Mountain by Jean McNeil

Although it is never explicitly named, the distinctive mountain described at the beginning of Jean McNeil’s Fire on the Mountain will undoubtedly draw reader’s minds to Cape Town’s Table Mountain – rising ominously out of an otherwise flat African coastline.