Philip Womack

Gabriel’s Moon is the welcome return of one of Britain’s most reliably gripping novelists

Rhodri Lewis’s book offers so many fresh insights and well-turned phrases that I had to buy a new notebook to fit them all in

In Elaine, Self has shown that understanding is possible, across generations and across time

Creation Lake is a book about how humans deal with what is deemed to be Other

The Playbook is a dramatic tale, full of overreaching ambition, dastardly plots, embattled heroes and last-minute reversals