Claire Keegan’s bittersweet novella ‘Foster’

There are books which try to redefine the concept of a loving home, emotional attachment, and a sense of belongingness and completion—that only a safe nestled environment can provide. Claire Keegan, through her short novella ‘Foster’, perhaps tries to anchor her readers into this very same harbour, allowing them to approach everything that makes up…

A true crime novel unlike anything else

Janice Hallett writes her third crime thriller book in the form of letters, chats, news clippings, interview transcripts—which she has admirably done in both of her earlier novels. But what makes Alperton Angels distinctly different is that it turns out to be a true crime investigatory novel in its core, where the fictional author Amanda…