elizabeth-lowry
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane review – the lost boy
Otherworldly sunsets, family tensions and Aboriginal lore collide in a blazing mystery set in the colonial outback
Elizabeth Lowry
08, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver review – Dickens updated
This powerful reimagining of David Copperfield follows one boy’s struggle to survive amid America’s opioid crisis
Elizabeth Lowry
10, Nov, 2022 @7:30 AM
Top 10 difficult marriages in fiction
Whether they induce schadenfreude or pangs of recognition, mismatched couples have inspired brilliant novels by authors from Evelyn Waugh to Jean Rhys
Elizabeth Lowry
06, Apr, 2022 @11:00 AM
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler review – background to an assassination
This family epic about the man who shot Abraham Lincoln spotlights America’s national story and the horrors of slavery
Elizabeth Lowry
19, Mar, 2022 @7:30 AM
The Slowworm’s Song by Andrew Miller review – failure and redemption
An alcoholic former soldier is tormented by his role in the Troubles in this beautifully written apologia for our common frailty
Elizabeth Lowry
12, Feb, 2022 @7:30 AM
Francis Bacon: Revelations review – a landmark biography
From designing rugs in Paris to painting visions of human suffering … the origins of some of the 20th century’s most iconic artworks
Elizabeth Lowry
10, Feb, 2021 @12:00 PM
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel review – witty and ferocious
From the witchcraft of ‘Hellish Nell’ to our credulous fetishising of royal female bodies – a masterclass in critical writing
Elizabeth Lowry
17, Oct, 2020 @6:30 AM
Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan review – a bittersweet tale of friendship
From a boys’ wild weekend to fortysomething crisis … male fragility falls under the spotlight in a novel of two halves
Elizabeth Lowry
12, Sep, 2020 @6:30 AM
The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver review – Fame, 1968-2011
Sexual predator, painter of celebrities, crabby old man of art ... a mesmerising biographical story is completed
Elizabeth Lowry
04, Sep, 2020 @8:00 AM
The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig review – a rollicking summer read
This exuberant tale of a struggling young mother plotting murder in Cornwall ricochets between wild fantasy and social truth
Elizabeth Lowry
17, Jun, 2020 @6:30 AM
The Consequences of Love by Gavanndra Hodge review – a high achiever's dark truth
A superbly written account of coming to terms with childhood bereavement and a father’s addiction to sex and drugs
Elizabeth Lowry
11, Jun, 2020 @8:00 AM
A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson review – free love with Leonard Cohen
‘Where would these male writers be without their ministering angels?’ A novel based around the arty 60s colony on a Greek island captures both the dream and the disappointment
Elizabeth Lowry
16, May, 2020 @6:30 AM
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