Recent reviews

Asia Overland: Tales of Travel on the

A photographic journal chronicling Asia's liaison with the western world

Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou

A rollicking ride through the smaller, personal devastations of African individuals

Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

Ellis' devastatingly creepy return to form

Diary of a Very Bad Year by Keith Gess

Insider insight into the financial world before, during and after the meltdown

Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain

The bad boy chef is still showing plenty of fire in his second memoir

Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate by John Choy

A series of photos revealing life inside one of the city's oldest housing estate

The Spot by David Means

Dark collection of short stories linked together by a spot

The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

Amis’s most nakedly autobiographical and sex-drenched novel since The Rachel Papers

Light Boxes by Shane Jones

Exceedingly precious, you'll either adore or despise this novel

Illustrado by Miguel Syjuco

Syjuco's prize-winning satirical thriller cum Filipino social history sees overdue international release

War by Sebastian Junger

A personal account of the war in Afghanistan

Elegy for April by Benjamin Black

Garret Quirke investigates a disappearance that nobody else seems to notice

Hotel Iris by Yuko Ogawa

A dark novel with relationships built to destroy rather than heal

Although of Course You End Up Becoming

A book length interview with the late great David Foster Wallace.

The Escape by Adam Thrilwell

An accessibly cerebral story of one man and his tragic libido