Category Archives: review

Red Plenty and The Lazarus Project

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Charles Lambert

I’ve been interested in Ukraine these past few weeks, for reasons that will soon, I hope, become apparent. Francis Spufford and Aleksander Hemon have also been interested in the country recently, obliquely and in very different ways. I came across … Continue reading →

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The Empire Trilogy

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Charles Lambert

The Man Booker Prize may not always shift as many units as its shortlisted authors and publishers would like, but it does occasionally have the virtue of introducing readers to writers they might not otherwise have met, providing a sort … Continue reading →

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Futile preoccupations…?

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Charles Lambert

A few weeks ago Rob at the Fiction Desk reviewed Any Human Face and, with great generosity, gave away ten free copies of the novel. One of the copies went to the man behind the book blog His Futile Preoccupations… … Continue reading →

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Snail-keeping and Sunday salons

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Clare Dudman, author of A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees (which I’m currently reading and wholeheartedly recommend – but more of that later), has interviewed me for her Sunday Salon on her literary blog, Keeper of the Snails. We … Continue reading →

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The Slaughteryard

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Assuming you know nothing of the work of the nineteenth century Argentine writer Esteban Echeverria, you can approach this book, one of the Friday Project’s Library of Lost Books, in two ways. The first is to cut to the chase … Continue reading →

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Two people, one bleeding

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Charles Lambert

And here’s another review of Any Human Face, from The Fiction Desk this time. It’s typically perceptive and I particularly enjoyed this sentence: The character interactions are driven by Lambert’s interest in the way people react to power and vulnerability … Continue reading →

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Little Monsters returns!

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Charles Lambert

This is getting better and better. Bookeywookey (subtitle: LITERATURE GOOD AND BAD, THEATER,AND NEUROSCIENCE….NO REALLY), who wrote the excellent review of Any Human Face mentioned in the previous post, has turned his critical eye on Little Monsters. To flattering effect. … Continue reading →

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Any Human Face review

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Charles Lambert

And I found this review of Any Human Face waiting for me when I turned on my laptop this afternoon… Here’s a taste of it. This is an unusual book in that it has everything – love, suspense, moral conflict, … Continue reading →

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Disturbing…

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Rob Spence reviews Any Human Face on Topsyturvydom, his highly recommended blog. It’s a great thrill when someone whose opinion you respect gets it, and Rob certainly gets it here. This is a taste of the review: This novel is, … Continue reading →

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Powerful…

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Charles Lambert

An excellent review of Any Human Face in The American in Italia. This is the best bit: Andrew’s solitary life suddenly becomes a thriller in itself, as Lambert takes the wraps off dangerous and age-old Italian conspiracies. Yet the larger … Continue reading →

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