Elizabeth Baines

There were only four of us to discuss this, Arundhati Roy's 1996 Booker-winning debut - Ann, Jenny, John and me. It's now two months...

Reading Ali Smith's early short stories made me a great admirer, and I was bowled over by her novel Hotel World (published as a debut,...

We approached Han Kang's The Vegetarian, suggested by Doug, with interest and even excitement. In translation it won the South Korean au...

Clare suggested this book which has received much acclaim and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is the tale of four young brothers ...

This was a bit of a whole-group choice, made in the absence of Trevor, who had been meant to  make the next suggestion, and prompted I sup...

John thought it pretty ironic that after criticising his choice of  The Men's Club  as an old-fashioned and irrelevant portrayal of me...

I was waiting for a train on Dalkey station when I opened this 1981 novel now reissued by Daunt Books, and was so bowled over by the prose...

There's never a long discussion to report when we unanimously love a book - there's no disagreement and no criticism of the book i...

Warning: plot spoil. Jenny, who had suggested this Booker-winning novel, said that she had really liked it, and that it had impressed he...