Kim Evans, Author at Culturefly

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 thread of this prickly debut from Nigerian writer Oyinkan Braithwaite. Two sisters in... Read More...

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 of reading ahead of us in 2019 – and it’s already shaping up to be a good one ... Read More...

Why you should be watching Castle Rock

For long time fans of Stephen King, the past couple of years have seemed like a renaissance. While admittedly the author hasn’t released a blockbusting novel re... Read More...

Book Review: The Lingering by SJI Holliday

If you’re not done already with feasting yourself on the current (and welcome, in my opinion) glut of haunted house stories that are flooding the screens, from ... Read More...

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 Aleppo, and the ensuing lesbian relationships within t... Read More...

Book Review: House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

A rather silly, but eminent author recently proclaimed that the ‘novel was dead’, to much outraged response from the literary world. I would feel for the poor g... Read More...

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 sit back in awe at her story, her survival and strength. This is br... Read More...

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 eponymous Jane Ashland seemingly freezing to death in the Norwegian wilderness. How this arise... Read More...

Book Review: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

This compact and yet epically staged family drama is the debut novel of Hala Alyan, a Palestinian-American writer who has previously made her name as a poet, an... Read More...

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. ... Read More...

A Caribbean Dream DVD Review

It seems a shame that we don’t see more Caribbean adaptions of Shakespeare, as the Bard’s dialogue certainly seems to run off a West Indian tongue more naturall... Read More...

Book Review: Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi

For those distant from the world of poetry, you’ve missed the recent movement of young poets that have been gaining popularity and readers in their native Londo... Read More...

Film

First Man DVD Review

A Private War Review

Win The Hate U Give on DVD

TV

Nightflyers Review: An eerie yet unsatisfying adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s novella

The Good Place season 3 review: Not just the smartest show on TV but the kindest too

The Pilot Project: Titans

Music

The Greta Van Fleet Conundrum

J.S. Ondara – Tales of America Review

The Teskey Brothers roll through Union Chapel

Books

Book Review: A History of Art in 21 Cats by Nia Gould

Book Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Book Review: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Kim Evans