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Archived Reviews

Sherman Alexie, War Dances

Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow

Julian Barnes, Nothing to be frightened of

Ned Beauman, Boxer, Beetle

A.S. Byatt, The Children’s Book

Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake

Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey, Theft

Mark Cocker and David Tipling, Birds and People

David Cronenberg, Consumed

Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

Patrick Flanery, Absolution

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

William Gibson, All Tomorrow’s Parties

William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

William Gibson, The Peripheral

William Gibson, Spook Country

William Gibson, Zero History

Lauren Groff, Arcadia

Lev Grossman, The Magician King

Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

Philip Hoare, The Sea Inside

Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Duncan Hohn, Moby Duck

Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

Micheline Jenner, The Secret Life of Whales, Eelco Rohling, The Oceans: A Deep History and Jeff Goodell, The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilised World

Thomas Keneally, The Widow and her Hero

Joy McCann, Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean

Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth

China Miéville, Kraken

Grant Morrison, Supergods

James Nestor, Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves and Wallace J. Nichols, Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do

Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife

Yoko Ogawa, Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales

Richard Price, Lush Life

Frederick Reiken, Day for Night

Callum Roberts, Ocean of Life

Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312

Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia

Karen Walker, The Age of Miracles

G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen

Tim Winton, Breath

Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees