Bloomsbury

Book Reviews

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
  - a fine children's fantasy, but somewhat over-hyped
• *Poor Things (Alasdair Gray)
  - a socialist neo-Gothic novel
• Soldiers of Salamis (Javier Cercas)
  - villains and heroes of the Spanish Civil War
• The Sykaos Papers (E.P. Thompson)
  - an alien is studied by military anthropology