Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
October 28th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using
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Worst. Person. Ever. by Douglas Coupland
October 9th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries
Much More than Misery Memoir: Sam Leith talks to Phyllida Law, Damian Barr and Rupert Christiansen, Soho Literary Festival
September 28th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
‘I know you’re going to be happy’ were the parting words of Rupert Christiansen’s father. But unlike the recent spate of misery memoirists, none of our
What’s in a Surname? A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker by David McKie
September 24th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Surnames are much more than convenient identity tags; they are windows into our families’
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
September 22nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: King says he wanted to know what
Danubia: A Personal History of Hapsburg Europe by Simon Winder
September 6th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar
The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell
September 1st, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In 1929, an explosion at a dance
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America by Owen Matthews
August 6th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russia’s furthest outposts were
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
July 29th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled
Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young
July 24th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century. A superb orator,
The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte
July 17th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: A boy eats his way to self-discovery
Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59 by David Kynaston
June 20th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The late 1950s was an action-packed, often dramatic time in which the contours of
Dear Lumpy: Letters to a Disobedient Daughter by Louise Mortimer and Roger Mortimer
June 14th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Dearest Lumpy, I hope you are plump and well. Your mother bashed her car
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
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
April 19th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is
Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
March 5th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In this study of family, Andrew Solomon tells
A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler: A Life by Tom Williams
February 3rd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: What we know of Raymond Chandler is
Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
February 2nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision is a short
A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks
September 9th, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second
Umbrella by Will Self
August 1st, 2012 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment
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