Books Jessie Greengrass’s Sight is a wondrous tale packed with Freud and psychoanalysis Sight would have been a stunning realist novel in its own right, without all the additional historical material. By Kirsty Gunn
Death puts all other subjects in the shade: memoirs by Robert McCrum and Maggie O’Farrell Every Third Thought and I Am, I Am, I Am tackle life’s most serious topic. By Kirsty Gunn
The fabulous weirdness of Martin John – a novel composed by its protagonist Martin John by Anakana Schofield is formulated by the endless tinkering and fiddling of its outsider narrator. By Kirsty Gunn
Lives that seem perfect but aren’t: An appreciation of James Salter Twenty years ago Kirsty Gunn was promoting a book about a perfect family who seemed to have everything, but… By Kirsty Gunn