Rage by Bob Woodward

Rage by Bob Woodward is not quite a biography of Donald Trump, rather more of a series of interviews scaffolded by USA entering the COVID pandemic.
Book reviews

Rage by Bob Woodward is not quite a biography of Donald Trump, rather more of a series of interviews scaffolded by USA entering the COVID pandemic.

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, brings together a number of themes to create a ‘what if’ scenario in the near future. Ultimately, a gentle dystopian tale.

The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith is densely written novel with a number of sub plots. For a murder investigation it is a lot of pages – over a thousand.

Douglas Murray, in the War on the West – takes a broadside on anti-westerners using race and culture to undermine our system.

The theme for this issue, Granta 160, revolves around the different layers of conflict – in the Ukraine, in the family and in work.

In Aurora by David Koeep a family with underlying grievances explodes when the power goes down. The novel then focuses on family strife in a blackout.

Granta 159: What Do You See - felt like a return to some of its basic strengths – memoir and reportage – evoking disquiet and a sense of familiarity.

Daniel Suarez's latest novel - Delta-v is a palatable near future space race story about a group of characters who get stuck in space.

Granta 158: In The Family is a mixed bag, rarely peeking above the average.

Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem poses existential questions about contact with alien life form but ultimately the hard sci gets in the way of a good story.