All articles by: Scarlett MccGwire

Books: A great European writer

Published: September 24, 2016
Written by Scarlett MccGwire

Cousin Bazilio by Eca de Quieroz Dedalus, £12.99 The painting of The Bride by the celebrated artist Paula Rego adorns the cover of this book. Fittingly so. For Eca de …

Googling the Renaissance

Published: August 9, 2016
Written by Scarlett MccGwire

The Tower by Allessandro Gallenzi Alma Books £7.99 Giordano Bruno was a man of genius – a philosopher, mathematician and poet with a prodigious memory. As a cosmologist he expanded …

Similarities across the Asian divide

Published: July 22, 2016
Written by Scarlett MccGwire

Crystal Wedding by Xi Xiaobing Masked Dolls by Shih Chiung-Yu Balestier Press £12.99 each British fiction readers are often berated by publishers for reading few books in translation. We are …

Imaginative mix of history and fantasy

Published: June 27, 2016
Written by Scarlett MccGwire

I AM RADAR by Reif Larsen Vintage £8.99 Reif Larsen’s latest novel is supremely ambitious, taking in quantum physics, recent events in Cambodia, the Balkans and Congo, mixed with byways …