Matt Warman
February 2004
Maps for Lost Lovers - (Man Booker Prize 2004, Longlist)
Aslam’s vision is not a happy one, and his painting of it takes much getting used to. The influence of Rushdie, instructive metaphors threatening at times to drown the sense, is almost overpowering, but both reader and author can settle down together after a couple of chapters.
• Fiction
February 2003
The Romantic - (Man Booker Prize 2003)
Barbara Gowdy has written a fairly straightforward love story. The Romantic - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize - has Louise Kirk tell the story of her love for and betrayal by both an alcoholic lover and a runaway mother.
• Fiction
