Literary Reviews

Short Stories

• Balancing on the edge of the world by Elizabeth Baines
• The Turing Test by Chris Beckett
• Stories of your other life by Ted Chiang
• Love of a Fat Man by Helen Dunmore
• Boyfriends and Girlfriends by Douglas Dunn
• The Fahrenheit Twins by Michel Faber
• The Apple by Michel Faber
• Don't read this book if you're stupid by Tibor Fischer
• An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
• Words from a Glass Bubble by Vanessa Gebbie
• the blue by Maggie Gee
• Family Connections by Chrissie Gittins
• The White Road and Other Stories by Tania Hershman
• Skin by Tobias Hill
• ReBerth Jim Hinks (ed)
• Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by A.L. Kennedy
• Now that you're back by A.L. Kennedy
• original bliss by A.L. Kennedy
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Scent of Cinnamon by Charles Lambert
• It's beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun
• adventures in capitalism by Toby Litt
• Beyond the Blue Mountains by Penelope Lively
• Secrets and other stories by Bernard Mac Laverty
• Matters of Life & Death by Bernard MacLaverty
• Fifteen modern tales of affection by Alison MacLeod
• Monopolies of Loss by Adam Mars-Jones
• The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories by Valerie Martin
• Everything in this country must by Colum McCann
• Assorted Fire Events by David Means
• four last things by William Palmer
• How do you spell Bl...gh? by Ian Robinson
• Constitutional by Helen Simpson
• Free love and other stories by Ali Smith
• the first person and other stories by Ali Smith
• Broken Things by Padrika Tarrant
• Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
• After Rain by William Trevor
• Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
• Murderers I Have Known by Marina Warner
• Alaska Quarterly Review 26
• Antioch Review 65.3
• Best of Young British Novelists 2003 (Granta 81)
• Ellipse 2
• The Guardian Summer short story special (2007)
• The Guardian short story special (2008)
• hyphen edited by ra page
• Inchiostro (May/Aug 2008)
• Iota Fiction 1 (ed Jane Weir) 2009
• Libbon 2
• pleasure vessels (Ian St James Awards)
• Pulse Fiction (Ian St James Awards)
• Riptide 1
• Short FICTION 1
• Story (Happenstance)
• The Sun book of short stories Jane Moore (ed)
• transmission 11
• The National Short Story Prize 2007
• Volume 1

Novels

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• London Fields by Martin Amis
• the book of illusions by Paul Auster
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
• The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block
• The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
• Texterminator by Christine Brooke-Rose
• Il codice da Vinci by Dan Brown
• Possession by A.S.Byatt
• Love by Angela Carter
• disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace
• Quarantine by Jim Crace
• a brief stay with the living by Marie Darrieussecq
• White Noise by Don DeLillo
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• Do Androids dream of electric sheep by Philip K. Dick
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Rainforest by Jenny Diski
• The March by E.L. Doctorow
• 26a by Diana Evans
• Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• The Ringmaster's Daughter by Josten Gaarder
• la solitudine dei numeri primi by Paolo Giordano
• 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
• The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
• Light by M. John Harrison
• Damage by Josephine Hart
• Born Free by Laura Hird
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
• Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna
• Day by A.L. Kennedy
• Looking for the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy
• the namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
• the golden notebook by Doris Lessing
• I promessi sposi by Alessandro Manzoni
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• if nobody speaks of remarkable things by Jon McGregor
• so many ways to begin by Jon McGregor
• Psalm 119 by Heather McRobie
• cloud atlas by David Mitchell
• Jazz by Toni Morrison
• Accident by Nicholas Mosley
• A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffernegger
• after you'd gone by Maggie O'Farrell
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
• Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• Harry Potter e la Pietra Filosofale by J.K. Rowling
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Staying On by Paul Scott
• Il Calderas by Carlo Sgorlon
• The Visible World by Mark Slouka
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• the accidental by Ali Smith
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Chang & Eng by Darin Strauss
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor
• The Alchemy of Desire by Tarun J Tejpal
• Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
• The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
• The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Poetry

• Transformatrix by Patience Agbabi
• Europa by Moniza Alvi
• How the Stone Found Its Voice by Moniza Alvi
• The Thief by Gill Andrews
• A Few Late Flowers by Cliff Ashby
• Kink and Particle by Tiffany Atkinson
• Scornflakes by Attila the Stockbroker
• Los Alamos Mon Amour by Simon Barraclough
• Tell it Like it Might Be by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs
• Private Pleasures by Connie Bensley
• The Men from Praga by Anne Berkeley
• Treasure Ground by Clare Best
• Looking Through Letterboxes by Caroline Bird
• The Beginning and End of the Snow by Yves Bonnefoy
• The Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle
• The Secret by Zoe Brigley
• Pillars of Salt by Judy Brown
• The Asylum Dance by John Burnside
• The Devil's Cut by Marianne Burton
• Slug Language by Anne Caldwell
• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
• Natural History & other poems by Dan Chiasson
• Samarkand by Kate Clanchy
• Take Me with You by Polly Clark
• Waiting to Burn by Angela Cleland
• Mackerel Wrappers by Martin Cook
• If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope
• How to disappear by Amanda Dalton
• A Fold in the Map by Isobel Dixon
• Conjure by Michael Donaghy
• Kissing a Bone by Maura Dooley
• Keeping Time by Tim Dooley
• The Man in the White Suit by Nick Drake
• Prince Rupert's Drop by Jane Draycott
• The Small Hours by Tom Duddy
• No Laughing Matter by Roger Elkin
• The Complete Poems of William Empson by John Haffenden (ed.)
• Yet by Carrie Etter
• Me and the Dead by Katy Evans-Bush
• Intimates by Helen Farish
• Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley
• The Ice Age by Paul Farley
• The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You by Paul Farley
• These Days by Leontia Flynn
• Particles of Life by Jan Fortune-Wood
• Dragons by Matthew Francis
• Touching the Bones by Tom French
• The Best Man That Ever Was by Annie Freud
• The Gods of Winter by Dana Gioia
• The Never-never by Kathryn Gray
• Nightflights by John Greening
• Nigh-no-place by Jen Hadfield
• No panic here by Mark Halliday
• Hotels like Houses by Sophie Hannah
• The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
• Electric Light by Seamus Heaney
• Ground Water by Matthew Hollis
• Bunny by Selima Hill
• Zoo by Tobias Hill
• Midnight in the City of Clocks by Tobias Hill
• Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow by Tobias Hill
• Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hoffman
• The Brief History of a Disreputable Woman by Jane Holland
• Low Probability of Racoons by Peter Howard
• Weighing the Air by Peter Howard
• Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
• The Missing by Siân Hughes
• The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah
• The Breakfast Machine by Helen Ivory
• The Tree House by Kathleen Jamie
• The Drift by Alan Jenkins
• The Striped World by Emma Jones
• Bundle o' Tinder by Rose Kelleher
• The Meanest Flower by Mimi Khalvati
• To a Fault by Nick Laird
• Landscape with Chainsaw by James Lasdun
• The Body in the Well by Gregory Leadbetter
• Keeping Mum by Gwyneth Lewis
• Paraphernalia by Joanne Limburg
• The Book of Love by Roddy Lumsden
• The Trick of Foreign Words by Aoife Mannix
• The Clown of Natural Sorrow by Rob A MacKenzie
• Small Hours by Lachlan Mackinnon
• The Ghostwriter by Mairi MacInnes
• Natural Causes by André Mangeot
• Mixer by André Mangeot
• Sky Nails by Jamie McKendrick
• Selected Poems by Ian McMillan
• Making the most of the light by Matt Merritt
• Hare Soup by Dorothy Molloy
• What the Wind Scatters by Margaret Moore
• The State of the Prisons by Sinéad Morrissey
• Lunch at the Elephant & Castle by Katrina Naomi
• Starlight on Water by Helena Nelson
• Mr and Mrs Philpott on Holiday at Aucherawe by Helena Nelson
• Unsuitable Poems by Helena Nelson
• Letters from Aldenderry by Philip Nikolayev
• Fiction by Conor O'Callaghan
• A Lope of Time by Ruth O'Callaghan
• Yes, I'd love to Dance by Maggie O'Dwyer
• The Sea Cabinet by Caitríona O'Reilly
• Dart by Alice Oswald
• The Poem and the Journey by Ruth Padel
• Rembrandt Would Have Loved You by Ruth Padel
• The Soho Leopard by Ruth Padel
• Landing Light by Don Paterson
• Rain by Don Paterson
• The Zoo Father by Pascale Petit
• Tonguefire by Andrew Philip
• The Brink by Jacob Polley
• Rays by Richard Price
• The Movement of Bodies by Sheenagh Pugh
• Gift Horses by Simon Rae
• Thumb's Width by John Redmond
• The Memory Tray by Deryn Rees-Jones
• Floods by Maurice Riordan
• Teach Yourself Mapmaking by Jane Routh
• Blind Spots by Carol Rumens
• Bursting the Clouds by John Sewell
• Birth of the Owl Butterflies by Ruth Sharman
• Scattering Eva by James Sheard
• The Blue Book by Owen Sheers
• In Doctor No's Garden by Henry Shukman
• Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds
• The Butcher's Hands by Catherine Smith
• Hard Water by Jean Sprackland
• Panoramic Lounge-bar by John Stammers
• Scarecrows by Jon Stone
• Beneath the Apple Bough by Isabella Strachan
• A Smell of Fish by Matthew Sweeney
• Reel by George Szirtes
• the floating man by Katharine Towers
• Dog Language by Chase Twichell
• Found Wanting by Hugh Underhill
• The Manager by Robin Vaughan-Williams
• Shag by Sue Vickerman
• Dock Leaves by Hugo Williams
• We Were Pedestrians by Gerard Woodward
• The Forward book of poetry 2001 by Forward Publishing
• The Forward book of poetry 2002 by Forward Publishing
• The Forward book of poetry 2003 by Forward Publishing
• The Forward book of poetry 2004 by Forward Publishing
• Oxford Poets 2002: An Anthology edited by Constantine, Lee and O'Donogue
• Solitaire Templar Poetry Anthology
• Life Line 2 Poets for Oxfam Todd Swift (ed)
• 52 ways of looking at a poem by Ruth Padel
• 101 Sonnets by Don Paterson (ed.)
• The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems by Wendy Cope (ed.)
• Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage (ed.)

Theory

• The mirror and the lamp by MH Abrams
• Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry by Charles Altieri
• staple62: Ten Years of Small Press Poets: An Alternative Generation, Elizabeth Barrett (ed)
• Poetic Culture by Christopher Beach
• The Quill and the Scalpel by Stephen H. Blackwell
• Subjective Criticism by David Bleich
• The Narrative Modes by Helmut Bonheim
• The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
• writing fiction by Amanda Boulter
• Destructive Poetics by P.A.Bové
• binary myths by Andy Brown (ed.)
• binary myths 2 by Andy Brown (ed.)
• The Poetry Circus by Stanton A. Coblentz
• Reading Network Fiction by David Ciccoricco
• Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science by Robert Crawford
• Almanaco dello Specchio by Cucchi and Riccardi
• An Introduction to Rhyme by Peter Dale
• The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry by Andrew Duncan
• Language and Linguistic Structure by Nigel Fabb
• The Ghost of Meter by Annie Finch
• Towards the End by John Gerlach
• Digital Poetics by Loss Pequeno Glazier
• Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene by Wolfgang Gortschacher
• The Necessity of Artspeak by Roy Harris
• Kipling, Auden & Co. by Randall Jarrell
• new relations by David Kennedy
• The Origins of Free verse by H.T. Kirby-Smith
• Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mary Klages
• Living with Theory by Vincent B. Leitch
• The Short Story by Paul March-Russell
• Oulipo Compendium by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie
• The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing by David Morley
• Problems and poetics of the nonaristotelian novel by Leonard Orr
• how to write a poem by John Redmond
• Nearly Too Much: The Poetry of J.H. Prynne by N.H.Reeve and Richard Kerridge
• Madness and Modernism by Louis A. Sass
• Cognitive Poetics by Peter Stockwell
• The Making of a Poem by Strand and Boland
• Paratextual communities by Susan Vanderborg
• Last Looks, Last Books by Helen Vendler
• The Resurgence of Traditional Poetic Form and the Current Status of Poetry's Place in American Culture by Kevin Walzer
• The Author is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else by Micelene Wandor
• Next Generation poets, Poetry Bookshop

Other/Magazines

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• Stuart: A life backwards by Alexander Masters
• Adultery & other diversions by Tim Parks
• Alaska Quarterly Review
• Envoi 132
• Fuselit 15: Tilt
• London Magazine (Aug/Sep 2009)
• New Writing 14
• New Writing 15
• Remake by Christine Brooke-Rose
• Sphinx 12