Review #7 The Daylight Gate by Jeannette Winterson

Review #7 The Daylight Gate by Jeannette Winterson

This is a brief book, slender even, and much the better for it. Winterson excels in revealing tiny detail and huge panorama in similarly incisive prose and in this novel, almost a novella, she manages to delineate the horrors of a country in the grip of a despot with an obsession as clearly and sparingly […]

#6 The Wall Between Us: Notes from the Holy Land by Matthew Small

#6 The Wall Between Us: Notes from the Holy Land by Matthew Small

My soon-to-be-husband had been working in South Africa before I met him in 1982. The apartheid laws were in full swing and he recounted how a black man had stepped off the pavement into the road to let him pass. I had no conception of this and then … ‘The only time I’d do that,’ […]