Author Archives: Doug Johnstone

Here are three recent book reviews I wrote for the Independent on Sunday. Click on the cover to read.

I have had loads more Big Issue book reviews in the magazine recently. Here they are: Tokyo by Nicholas Hogg Half the World Away by Cath Staincliffe Day Four by Sarah Lotz Your Father Sends His Love by Stuart Evers … Continue reading →

Here’s my review of History of a Suicide by Jill Bialosky for The Indy on Sunday. Very moving, in summary.

Here’s my review of Helen FitzGerald’s The Exit for The Indy on Sunday. In summary, excellent.

Here are a load more Big Issue book reviews what I have done wrote. Here are reviews of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks and David Vann’s Aquarium. Here are reviews of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band, … Continue reading →

It’s been out a while, so always nice when a new review pops up for THE DEAD BEAT. Here’s Pam Norfolk at the Lancashire Evening Post, declaring it ‘a mystery with its own special beat’. Lovely.

Here are a few more of my Big Issue reviews:   Here’s my review of new books by Chris Brookmyre and Evan Dolan, two cracking British crime novels.   Here’s my review of Edith Pearlman latest story collection and Anna Smaill’s … Continue reading →