Category Archives: review

Little Monsters: review and interview

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Little Monsters has just been reviewed by Kay Sexton. You can find the review, followed by an interview with me, on Writing Neuroses, here. Kay’s questions were challenging and fun, and I’ve done my best to answer them. I can … Continue reading →

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Gob-teased

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Charles Lambert

The last place you’d expect to find a review of the O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 is in what purports to be a review of the 2008 collection – just out. But the Manila Standard Today is clearly a paper … Continue reading →

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Little Monsters: Guardian review

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Another review of Little Monsters, this time from The Guardian. It’s the sort of review that’s best described as mixed. Mixed, as in: The parts of the book dealing with Carol’s adolescence are very good indeed, but the more contemporary … Continue reading →

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Disturbing stock

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Leonie Jackson, of Waterstones Walsall, has this to say about Little Monsters: I really enjoyed this book although it is slightly disturbing, particularly the relationship between the protagonist and her ‘uncle Joey’. The main story is set during the Second … Continue reading →

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Little Monsters – review

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Charles Lambert

My first customer review on Amazon, and it’s a good one. It begins: Little Monsters starts off with a tremendous bang, grabbing the reader’s attention with its first sentence, and then manages somehow to maintain that effect on pretty much … Continue reading →

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Little Monsters – Good Housekeeping (April 2008) review

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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Little Monsters – Daily Mail review

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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Little Monsters – review

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Charles Lambert

The April issue of Good Housekeeping (UK), curiously due to appear in early March, has included Little Monsters among its Seven Great Reads. The other six include the latest by La Petite Anglaise, Anne Fine and Hanif Kureishi. It calls … Continue reading →

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Little Monsters – a second review

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Another review of Little Monsters, this time by literary blogger dovegreyreader. She asks some interesting questions about the construction of novels with more than one time thread in the narrative. If I hadn’t been awake for just under 30 hours … Continue reading →

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Ross Leckie: Hannibal

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Charles Lambert

One of the problems with historical fiction is that the reader is likely to have a fairly clear idea of what happens. This is particularly the case when the fiction deals with the illustrious dead. Novels about Napoleon and Marie … Continue reading →

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