Giles Coren vs Cooked by Michael Pollan
June 10th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Giles Coren was on enjoyably caustic form reviewing gastro-philosopher Michael Pollan’s Cooked for The Times: “… do not, I repeat not,
Browsing the "Reviews" Category
Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot
June 10th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In Feral, George Monbiot, one of the world’s most celebrated radical thinkers, and the
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
June 10th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The year is 1977 and Reno –
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
June 10th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In a culture of celebrity chefs and food reality shows, in countries which are
When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence by Stephen D King
June 9th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades,
James Tait Black Prize Fiction Shortlist
June 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Shortlist for the James Tait Black Prize below. The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a
The Dark Road by Ma Jian
June 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Meili, a young peasant woman born in
Joyland by Stephen King
June 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement
Last Friends by Jane Gardam
June 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Old Filth and The Man in the
Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux
June 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months.
A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee
June 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking
A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby
June 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: On a damp July morning in 1946,
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
June 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: 1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young
Asunder by Chloe Aridjis
June 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Marie’s job as a museum guard at
The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
June 5th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Hamburg, 1946. Thousands remain displaced in what
Frederic Raphael VS A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré
June 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
One reviewer said “Le Carré, now an august 81, is a writer of towering gifts.” In his review in the
Hannah McGill VS All That Is by James Salter
June 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
In his Guardian review, James Lasdun called All That Is “a scaled-down, American Anthony Powell, with the starch rinsed out
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
May 29th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, is far from his humble origins.
All That Is by James Salter
May 29th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World
A Man in Love: My Struggle, Volume 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
May 21st, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Karl Ove Knausgaard leaves his wife and
-
Latest
-
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
September 29th | by
-
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 by Simon Armitage
September 29th | by
-
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
September 26th | by
-
Playing to the Gallery by Grayson Perry
September 23rd | by
-
The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah
September 22nd | by
-
