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“... these men outside at the edge of his life, but from the women inside, his wife and her sister. Jacqueline Simms’s intriguing, uneven first novel, Unsolicited Gift, closes with the promise of a renewal, as the central male character holds the hand of his estranged Japanese wife in the interval of their daughter’s debut as a concert pianist. The ...”

“... D.J. Enright recently celebrated his 70th birthday. In commemoration, Oxford University Press have prepared a rather lean Selected Poems, and a volume of personal reminiscences and critical essays about Enright’s life and work by a variety of writers. This festschrift’s title, Life by Other Means, derives from an Enright poem called ‘Poetical Justice’ which muses rather more ambiguously on the relations between art and life than the stirring phrase might suggest in isolation ...”