Doug Johnstone

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

illustration by Dom McKenzie

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

All Involved by Ryan Gattis

When the Doves Disappeared by Sofi Oksanen

The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

Pleasantville by Attica Locke

Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette

Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman

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, Jill Bialosky’s History of a Suicide and Ghettoside by Jill Levoy.

Here are reviews of Sarah Pinborough’s The Death House and Miranda July’s The First Bad Man.

Here’s one, featuring The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson and The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson.

All illustrations by Dom McKenzie

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 debut literary novel.

And here’s my review of Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself and graphic novel Grandville Noel by Bryan Talbot.

All illustrations by Dom McKenzie.