It’s more terrible not to remember, review of The Unwomanly Face of War and Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich, Daily Telegraph, 22 July 2017
Me, Graham Greene and the voice that won’t go away, review of The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer, Independent, 19 May 2012
Joseph Roth: a life in letters, Sunday Telegraph, 5 February 2012
In search of Europe, Prospect, November 2011
From one uncertainty to another, Times Literary Supplement, 3 June 2011
In dreams, review of Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev translated by Kapka Kassabova, Times Literary Supplement, 24 December 2010
From Delft to Java, review of The Tea Lords by Hella S. Haasse translated by Ina Rilke, Guardian, 4 December 2010
I run, you run…, profile of Usain Bolt, Stiletto (Paris), November 2010
Magic in the mirror, review of The Accident by Ismail Kadare translated by John Hodgson, Independent, 3 September 2010
Imperfect spies, review of Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré, Prospect, September 2010
The master of small things, a profile of David Mitchell and review of his 5th novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Prospect, May 2010
Pole positions, review of Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk, Times Literary Supplement, 2 April 2010
Illuminating the human heart, review of The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, Prospect, January 2010
Almost a British Balzac, review of A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks, Prospect, September 2009
Mysteries afloat, review of The Last Englishman: the Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers, Times Literary Supplement, 21 August 2009
Damned by his brain, review of The Sixth Man: the Extraordinary Life of Paddy Costello by James McNeish, Times Literary Supplement, 24 July 2009
In possession of all the facts, review of A S Byatt’s The Children’s Book, Prospect, May 2009
Europe-bound, review of Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Guardian, 4 April 2009
Tales of a magic mountain, review of Sacred Sierra by Jason Webster, Independent, 27 March 2009
Avoid the beer in Bratislava, review of The Wooden Village and The End of Freddy, parts 2 & 3 of the Rivers of Babylon trilogy by Peter Pist’anek, Daily Telegraph, 3 January 2009