sheenaghpugh | List of 2020 Reviews

2020 was not a normal year, at least, not after March. A lot of friends and ex-students of mine who published books lost the publicity of launches and readings due to the plague. So I decided to do extra reviews and in fact ended up doing 30 over the year. Since that's quite a lot, I thought it might be helpful to make a list of them organised into 3 categories — non-fiction, novels and poetry - and include the individual links. Nearly all were published this year, except a couple by David Wishart, and I included these because I discovered when I put up the first, which was of a new book, that some of his fans had missed the last few, because he is now self-publishing.

Non-Fiction
The Stonemason, Andrew Ziminski pub. John Murray
Brando’s Bride, Sarah Broughton, pub. Parthian
The Bhutto Dynasty, Owen Bennett-Jones, pub. Yale University Press
A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not To Build A Railway by Andrew Drummond, pub. Origin (Birlinn)
(Normally there’d have been far more non-fiction, but I was reading so much of the new poetry and fiction I’d semi-promised to review that I had less time for it. Why don’t more of my friends write history?)

Novels
The Breach, M T Hill, pub. Titan
Widow’s Welcome, D K Fields, pub. Head of Zeus
Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead, Karen Lee Street, pub. Point Blank
Dead Men’s Sandals, David Wishart, independently published
Going Back, David Wishart, independently published
Allegation, R G Adams, pub. Riverrun (Quercus)
Miriam, Daniel and Me, Euron Griffith, pub. Seren
The Midnight Swan by Catherine Fisher, pub. Firefly Press
Family Commitments by David Wishart, independently published