Compulsive Reader Newsletter
February 2026
Happy February readers. Our newsletter this month has just gone out. This month’s issue is full of the usual roundup of literary news around the world including the National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, the Australian Indie Book Awards, the T.S. Eliot prize and many others. We also have a dozen new reviews since last month including my own review of the new book by UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s New Cemetery, as well as two new book giveaways (I don’t harvest emails or keep addresses on file, so please get your entries in for these!). If you can’t wait or want to have a preview you can grab the newsletter in our Permanent Archive. If you want to subscribe just visit: www.compulsivereader.com.