BOOK REVIEWS

  • Footpaths in the Painted City by Sadia Shepard
    (Jewish Chronicle; 26th September, 2008)
  • I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crossley
    (Jewish Chronicle; 14th August, 2008)
  • Not in My Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy by Julie Burchill and Chas Newkey-Burden
    (Jewish Chronicle; 7th August, 2008)
  • Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
    (The Observer; 3rd August, 2008)
  • Sashenka by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
    (Jewish Chronicle; July 17th, 2008)
  • The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
    (The Observer; 29th June, 2008)
  • The Hamburger: A History by Josh Ozersky
    (The Observer; 8th June, 2008)
  • The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds
    (Jewish Chronicle; 5th June, 2008)
  • Who Was Sophie? by Celia Robertson
    (The Observer; 6th April, 2008)
  • Devotion by Nell Leyshon
    (The Observer; 9th March, 2008)
  • For the Love of Politics: The Clintons in the White House by Sally Bedell Smith
    (The Observer; 20th January, 2008)
  • Let me in! by Mario Testino
    (The Observer; 6th January, 2008)
  • The Paris Review Interviews Volume 2 by Philip Gourevitch
    (The Observer; 18th November, 2007)
  • Lorenzo Da Ponte by Rodney Bolt
    (The Observer; 4th November, 2007)
  • Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts by Jools Holland
    (The Observer; 28 October, 2007)
  • The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis
    (The Observer; 23rd September, 2007)
  • What was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
    (Telegraph; 18th August, 2007)
  • Salt by Jeremy Page
    (FT Magazine; 12th May, 2007)
  • Dancing With Eva by Alan Judd
    (Telegraph; 18th April, 2007)
  • Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
    (The Observer; 1st April, 2007)
  • The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King
    (FT Magazine; 31st March/1st April, 2007)
  • Nature Girl by Carl Hiaason
    (FT magazine; 3rd/4th February, 2007)
  • Cockeyed by Ryan Knighton
    (FT Magazine; 3/4 February, 2007)
  • Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert
    (The Observer; 14th January, 2007)
  • Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
    (FT Magazine; 17th November, 2006)
  • Qissat edited by Jo Glanville
    (Jewish Quarterly Magazine; Winter 2006/7)
  • Fish, Flesh and Good Red Herring by Alice Thomas Ellis
    (Telegraph; 14th October, 2006)
  • An Irresponsible Age by Lavinia Greenlaw
    (Telegraph; 14th October, 2006)
  • Time at War by Nicholas Mosley
    (FT Magazine; 2006)
  • Seven Kings by Fran Abrams
    (FT Magazine; 2006)
  • Unreliable Memoirs IV by Clive James
    (FT Magazine; 7th/8th October, 2006)
  • Last Curtsey by Fiona MacCarthy
    (FT Magazine; 7th/8th October, 2006)
  • Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
    (Jewish Quarterly Magazine; Autumn 2006)
  • This Book Will Change Your Life by AM Homes
    (FT Magazine; 29th/30th July, 2006)
  • Look Back in Anger by Harriet Devine
    (FT Magazine; 29th/30th July 2006)
  • The Earl of Petticoat Lane by Andrew Miller
    (Jewish Quarterly Magazine; Summer 2006)
  • Tales of a Cultural Conduit by Jay Landesman
    (Jewish Chronicle; 16th June, 2006)
  • Dora B: A Memoir of My Mother by Josiane Behmoiras
    (Jewish Quarterly Magazine; Spring 2006)
  • The Man who Saved Britain by Simon Winder
    (FT Magazine; 10th/11th June, 2006)
  • Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy
    (FT Magazine; 10th/11th June, 2006)
  • Towelhead by Alicia Erian
    (Telegraph Arts and Books; 2nd April, 2006)
  • Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Mathew Kneale
    (Telegraph; 18th March, 2006)
  • The Letter in the Bottle: A Mother's Story by Karen Leibreich
    (FT Magazine; 11th/12th March, 2006)
  • Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund
    (Jewish Chronicle; 28th February, 2006)
  • The Giro Playboy by Michael Smith
    (FT Magazine; 4th/5th March, 2006)
  • Leaving Home by Anita Brookner
    (Telegraph; 18th February, 2006)
  • Pillion Riders by Elisabeth Russell Taylor
    (Jewish Chronicle; 27th January, 2006)
  • The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
    (Jewish Chronicle; 27th January, 2006)
  • Honey by Arnold Wesker
    (Jewish Quarterly Magazine; Winter 2005/6)
  • Evening in the Palace of Reason by James Gaines
    (Telegraph; 29th October, 2005)
  • Nelson's Daughter: A Novel by Miranda Hearn
    (Telegraph; 29th October, 2005)
  • Love without Resistance by Gilles Rozier
    (Jewish Chronicle; 21st October, 2005)
  • The Kaminsky Cure by Christopher New
    (Jewish Chronicle; 21st October, 2005)
  • Nigella Lawson by Gilly Smith
    (Jewish Chronicle; 16th September, 2005)
  • Winkler by Giles Coren
    (Jewish Chronicle; 2nd September, 2005)
  • A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb
    (Telegraph; 11th June, 2005)
  • Brief Lives by W. F. Deedes
    (Telegraph; 11th June, 2005)
  • Bloody Foreigners by Robert Winder
    (Telegraph; 21st May, 2005)
  • Brass by Helen Walsh
    (Telegraph; 14th May, 2005)
  • The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
    (Telegraph; 23rd April, 2005)
  • Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn
    (Telegraph; 23rd April, 2005)
  • The Nimrod Flip Out by Etgar Keret
    (Jewish Chronicle; 11th March, 2005)
  • Feed My Dear Dogs by Emma Richler
    (Jewish Chronicle; 28th January, 2005)
  • The Lover by A. B. Yehoshua
    (Jewish Chronicle; 17th December, 2004)
  • Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
    (Jewish Chronicle; 8th October, 2004)
  • The Waitress by Melissa Nathan
    (Jewish Chronicle; 24th September, 2004)
  • The Other Woman by Jane Green
    (Jewish Chronicle; 24th September, 2004)
  • The Secret Purposes by David Baddiel
    (Jewish Chronicle; 27th August, 2004)
  • Being Committed by Anna Maxted
    (Jewish Chronicle; 9th July, 2004)
  • Cross My Heart and Hope to Die by Claire Calman
    (Jewish Chronicle; 9th July, 2004)
  • Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger
    (Jewish Chronicle; 14th May, 2004)

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