I don’t in my review use the word ‘unforgettable’ lightly. First read Brotherless Night when it came out in the US, at the start of 2023. It has stayed with me since. A remarkable book by any standards.

Brotherless Night is a spectacular work of historical fiction: thoroughly researched, brimming with outrage and compassion, and full of indelible imagery. My piece - to celebrate the book being shortlisted for ⁦⁦⁦⁦Women's Prize⁩ theguardian.com/books/article/…

I wrote about Tommy Orange’s “emotionally incandescent and structurally riveting” second novel Wandering Stars- an incredible book on addiction, intergenerational trauma and colonisation. HarvillSecker Penguin Books UK theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

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‘The Gallopers is a whispered howl of a novel about men fettered by masculine norms and the bargains they strike with others and themselves in order to live.’ Read what I said about Jon Ransom’s hypnotic and mysterious second novel. Guardian Books theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…

Another year older 🌴

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene’s Innards, an important and impressive debut collection. Wrote about it for The Guardian

‘To read Makhene is to understand apartheid as a live, unhealed wound.’

My review of Magogodi oaMphela Makhene’s stunning debut. So much to admire here, in the melding of grief, grit and horror theguardian.com/books/2023/dec…

A strange little thing, a dream and a nightmare, about life and death, possibly about God and the other world. Beautiful, hallucinatory, a tad scary. This can be your entry into Jon Fosse. Fitzcarraldo Editions

soleil, mer, always

The best fiction of 2023 theguardian.com/books/2023/dec…

Love Geetanjali Shree, everyone should read her. So lucky to have been able to chat to her about her book at the Trou D’eau Douce Literature festival, Mauritius. Tomb of sand is a dazzling, towering triumph

Smith, obvs

I wrote this one for readers to enjoy. Trying out a new approach!
Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Every novelist says you never forget your first Guardian angel. Thanks so much @NickhylDawoor for being my first Guardian angel. What a stunning review from someone who absolutely gets my novel down to its characters' secret motives.

This is a novel of real ambition. And what fun to read it and think about it. My Guardian Books review.

No One Dies Yet by Kobby Ben Ben review – a bold and provocative debut from Ghana theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

Zadie Smith Is Back With An Epic And Emotional New Novel | British Vogue

A great read from ⁦Zing Tsjeng⁩ walking and talking with Zadie about The Fraud in north-west London — vogue.co.uk/article/zadie-…