FIPA REVIEWS Archive

The Pull of Reality

Posted on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Michele Ledda praises Wasted’s demolition of educational myths but argues for a more incisive critique of the politics of change.
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Norman Bates and the End of Time

Posted on May 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Charles Brickdale suggests that Don Delillo's 'Point Omega' joins a major cultural trend in portraying contemporary civilisation as terminally exhausted.
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The Girl Who Played With Fire — Stieg Larsson (Maclehose Press)

Posted on April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
Stephen Bowler reviews 'The Girl Who Played With Fire', the sequel to Steig Larsson's 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'.
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Point Omega — Don DeLillo (Picador)

Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
Wes Brown reviews Don DeLillo's latest novel, 'Point Omega' (Picador, 2010).
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The Pregnant Widow — Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape, 2010)

Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
Wes Brown reviews the long awaited Amis novel, 'The Pregnant Widow' (Jonathan Cape, 2010).
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The Afterglow — Anthony Cartwright (Tindall Street Press)

Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
Wes Brown reviews Anthony Cartwright’s debut novel, The Afterglow (Tindall Street Press).
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Every Salt Advance — Andrew McMillan (Red Squirrel Press, 2009)

Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
Andrew McMillan’s poetry is strongest when he follows his own personal dictum, and allows his poetry to ‘deal with the unpoetic, with the everyday and the mundane’.
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Heartland — Anthony Cartwright (Tindal Street Press, 2009)

Posted on November 26, 2009 | No Comments
For those of us hungry for something substantive in our contemporary fiction, Heartland, Anthony Cartwright’s second novel, elegantly crafts a deft lyrical realism that’s given shape by a tightly woven, elliptical narrative. Like Don DeLillo’s classic Underworld – Cartwright, cubist-like, uses sport to draw together...
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