Blog reviews for 2024
Here's a list of this year's blog reviews, with links to each. For me, this year's standout was Ferdia Lennon's novel, Glorious Exploits.
Poetry
The Electron-Ghost Casino by Randolph Healy, pub. Miami University Press 2024
Velvel’s Violin by Jacqueline Saphra, pub. Nine Arches Press 2023
My Body Can House Two Hearts, by Hanan Issa, pub. Burning Eye, 2024
Iktsuarpok, by Nora Nadjarian, pub. Broken Sleep Books 2023
A Darker Way by Grahame Davies, pub. Seren 2024
Belief Systems by Tamar Yoseloff, pub. Nine Arches 2024
Fiction
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho, by Paterson Joseph, pub. Dialogue Books 2022
The Yellow Nineties, by Catherine Fisher, pub. Three Impostors Press 2024
Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon, pub. Fig Tree 2024
Cole the Magnificent, by Tony Williams, pub. Salt Publishing 2023
Nocturne with Gaslamps, by Matthew Francis, pub. Neem Tree Press 2024
Children’s/YA
Culhwch and Olwen, by Catherine Fisher, pub. Graffeg Ltd 2024
Starspill, by Catherine Fisher, pub. Firefly Press 2024
Non-fiction
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood, Alistair Moffat, pub.Thames & Hudson 2023
The End of Enlightenment, by Richard Whatmore, pub. Penguin 2023
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark, pub. Penguin 2023
The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary, by Andrew Drummond, pub. Verso 2024
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx, by Jerry Toner, pub. Profile Books 2022
The Blazing World, by Jonathan Healey, pub. Bloomsbury 2023
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789, by Robert Darnton, pub. Penguin 2023
Femina by Janina Ramirez, pub. W H Allen 2022
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond, by Alice Roberts, pub. Simon & Schuster 2024
My Beautiful Sisters by Khalida Popal, pub. John Murray 2024
Night Train to Odesa by Jen Stout, pub Polygon 2024