The second novel in the author’s Austrian trilogy is a melancholic tale of lost love and reflection set between the warsSebastian Faulks’s 2005 novel, Human Traces, made explicit his ongoing fascination with the mystery of human consciousness and the f…
Mrs March by Virginia Feito review – super woman’s world unravels
An author’s wife sinks into paranoid fantasy after a social slight in an accomplished comedy-horror too arch for its own goodIf you were to generalise about psychological thrillers – a genre label now applied to pretty much any novel in which someone h…
12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson review – engaging history of technological progress
Whether examining sex dolls or transhumanism, the novelist brings her skill as a storyteller to these ambitious, hugely entertaining essaysJeanette Winterson is not usually considered a science-fiction writer, yet her novels have always been concerned …