After My Own Heart, Sophia Blackwell’s debut novel, is an engaging, witty, and uplifting read. The protagonist, Evie Day, is every inch the modern heroine: newly single, she boasts a complex love life, a housing problem, a selection of dodgy best friends and a career she doesn’t like. The novel unfolds in the first person, opening with Evie…
Posted on 19th February 2013
Posted on 19th November 2012
Ours are the Streets
Sunjeev Sahota’s first novel, Ours are the Streets, is presented as the last testimony of Imtiaz Raina, a young British Muslim about to become a suicide bomber; it’s his attempt to explain himself to the people he loves. We follow Imtiaz from his time at university in Sheffield, where he falls in love with Becka,…
