Besides offering eloquent and insightful critiques of literature on our print pages, Alice Wickenden has been creating her own body of wondrous work.

“To boil Cahokia Jazz down to a genre novel about race is ‘only half the truth’.” – Alice Wickenden

“Penance, Eliza Clark’s second novel, is presented as a true crime book whose journalist author was ‘cancelled’ shortly after its publication, accused of illegally acquiring material and misrepresenting interviews.” – Alice Wickenden

“It is August; the summer is endless; and if we make it to the promised party then everything will be alright. Just don’t ask what happens next.” – Alice Wickenden

“In We The Parasites, A.V. Marraccini offers us the critic-as-parasite, a metaphor which becomes the generative starting point for an essay that encounters (among others) Homer, John Updike, Cy Twombly…” – Alice Wickenden

“All Down Darkness Wide is a haunted book… It’s a remarkable meditation on how, sometimes, the way back to ourselves takes the form of telling the story of our own ghosts.” – Alice Wickenden

“McGill’s deft handling of the way one’s past shadows the mundane offers some of the strongest moments of this collection.” – Alice Wickenden

“Much like the plant it is titled after, Nettles is a short, sharp, and at first unassuming novel.” – Alice Wickenden

“An attention to detail that pulses, a directness somehow both soft and sharp, sadness fraying round the edges… Heaven is a philosophical exercise in examining the responsibilities we have towards other people.” – Alice Wickenden

“Reading the pieces cover-to-cover means seeing the past few years of the world skip past at an unnerving pace…. My copy is full of exclamation marks in the margins.” – Alice Wickenden

“For those familiar with Jarman’s work as an artist, there will be lots within these pages simultaneously familiar and queer.” – Alice Wikenden

This is not poetry as a solution, but as a keening: ‘Lest we forget, a morgue is also a community center.’ And somehow life goes on.

The novel that the Nobel prize committee described as Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘magnum opus so far’.

Described as ‘a book of failure and mistakes’, Lola Olufemi’s second book, published by Hajar Press, encourages its reader to ‘imagine otherwise’. What is ‘otherwise’? It’s everything that this world is not…

Archipelago offers the sea, overlappings of prose, poetry, image, familiar names and authors coming into strange constellations. The mark of a good editor is how natural it seems, how of nature.

Lucy Ellman’s first nonfiction collection provides the sort of incisive and acerbic look into the world to be expected from the author of Ducks, Newburyport (2019), her 1,030 page, Goldsmiths Prize-winning modernist tome.

Eltahawy draws connections between societal manifestations of patriarchy rousingly; it reads like a primer for that moment of awakening when you begin to piece things together, to say, ‘hang on a minute…’

The second standalone novel written by Tana French, leaving behind the world of the cult favourite ‘Dublin Murder Squad’ series.