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Welcome to A Novel Review, the book podcast where every week, Seamus reviews a different book. For 2025 Seamus is doing a ‘Book World Tour’ where every month he ‘travels’ through literature to another country. The rules are simple: Each month he reads two books – one male and one female and the author has…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-h8uqz-1b88963 To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is a literary experience. Set in 1938 Mexico, this masterpiece follows an alcoholic British consul stumbling through love, politics and personal ruin, all beneath the watchful gaze of two volcanoes. Is it a tragic meditation on self-destruction or just the…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dhz35-1b7669f To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Hollay Ghadery’s The Unravelling of Ou is a strange, funny and deeply moving novel about motherhood, memory, identity and survival with a sock puppet telling us all. When Minoo’s daughter demands Ecology Paul disappear if Minoo would like a relationship with her, a lifetime of…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yc4g5-1b6331a To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com What if the world ended, but nobody told you why? Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall is a haunting blend of dystopian fiction, survival story and philosophical mystery. Today I explore isolation, nature, animals, civilisation and the strange domesticity of apocalypse… and ask what remains when humanity…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-a5ymd-1b51b43 To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com What happens when a lonely man wins the lottery, buys a secluded house, and decides the one thing missing from his collection is a woman? John Fowles’ The Collector is part psychological thriller, part Gothic nightmare, and part very uncomfortable thought experiment about love, possession…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f6657-1b37e97 To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Steven Erikson’s Deadhouse Gates doesn’t so much invite you into its world as drag you behind a galloping horse and demand that you keep up. The second Malazan Book of the Fallen novel is bigger, darker and considerably less interested in holding your hand, throwing…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-a2y6n-1b271a1 To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Few novels puncture patriotic certainty with quite the elegance of William – An Englishman. In this episode, I wander through Cicely Hamilton’s quietly devastating World War I novel, where satire, social observation, and unfortunate timing expose the absurdities of English life and what it mean…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7ipae-1b15a55 To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com A haunting novel where ghosts whisper, memories return, and every silence echoes with unresolved longing. Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo uncovers haunted landscapes, fractured time, and unforgettable voices, revealing how the past refuses burial. Painting: Today I painted a skull under Pedro Paramo’s hat …
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bgpfw-1b053f8 To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com In a world where Artificial Friends are needed to sustain and nurture human relationships A.I is not the problem but rather, the result of a larger issue. Only a world that is socially adrift and suffering under the weight of a loneliness epidemic would reply on…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mwa6h-1aeacc8 To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com What connects Gogol’s The Overcoat, Seán O’Faoláin’s The Fur Coat, and Vladimir Voinovich’s The Fur Hat? In this episode, I explore how three stories from different countries, cultures, and historical periods share a remarkably similar narrative structure. Through coats, hats, and other items of clothing, these…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bhuiu-1ad0e55 To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com The Goldilocks book: not too long, not too short – just enough time to leave a lasting punch. In this episode, I explore great books under 200 pages: compact stories packed with depth, emotion, and unforgettable ideas. Across a wide range of genres, these books…
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