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Richard Mason - The Lighted Rooms

Richard Mason - The Lighted Rooms

(3 stars)8 May 2008

FAMILY DRAMA (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) The Lighted Rooms takes on a vast array of human experience from Boer War concentration camps and townships of modern-day Bloemfontein to commodities trading crises and antiseptic nursing homes in 21st century…

Sadie Jones

Sadie Jones - The Outcast

(4 stars)31 Jan 2008

The Outcast (Chatto & Windus) Sadie Jones’ postwar tale of one boy’s cruel alienation from family and community might be able to beat a handful of Valium as a downer, yet there’s still something achingly compelling about it that keeps the pages…

Self Help

(3 stars)18 Jun 2007

FAMILY DRAMA Evidently written with one eye on the literary prizes, Edward Docx’s second novel is an ambitious, cultured affair, but one dragged down by the weight of its own ideas. Set in St Petersburg, London, New York and Paris, it rings with…

When We Were Bad

Charlotte Mendelson

(3 stars)9 Apr 2007

FAMILY DRAMA Charlotte Mendelson returns with a sweeping familial drama charting the decline and fall of a well-to-do, very Jewish London family funnelled through the revolving narrative ciphers of three characters in crisis. Rabbi Claudia, son Leo…

Death of a Murderer

Rupert Thomson

(2 stars)26 Mar 2007

FAMILY DRAMA With artworks, dramas and songs having been created about and around Myra Hindley, there is no particular reason for Rupert Thomson’s eighth novel to be inherently offensive. What genuinely upsets here is the paucity of much of the…

Charlotte's Web

(U) 96min

(3 stars)29 Jan 2007

As a farmyard community story, EB White’s much loved kids story fits somewhere between cutesy fantasy Babe and Orwell’s bleak political parable Animal Farm, with cheery talking animals sugar-coating a bittersweet finale that touches on practical matters…

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