Chris Wilkinson
February 2004
Snowleg - (Man Booker Prize 2004, Longlist)
Nicholas Shakespeare touches on a range of themes that provide fertile ground for a story: identity crisis and cultural dislocation, the tumultuous events of Germany’s reunification, and love across generational, geographical and political divides. Yet the book fails to ever really surprise or provoke the reader.
• Fiction
February 2003
Notes On A Scandal - (Man Booker Prize 2003)
Put the words ‘sex’ and ‘child’ in the same sentence, and you are likely to have even the most bleeding-hearted of liberals baying for blood. So when schoolteacher Sheba Hart embarks on an illicit affair with fifteen-year-old student Steven Connolly, it is only a matter of time before she is hauled before a frenzied media with an insatiable desire to be shocked.
• Fiction
