Joseph Connolly: 'Each gender requires the exclusive company of their own sex'
The prolific author and food critic talks to Viv Groskop about bonding, bookshops and beards
October 2012
England's Lane by Joseph Connolly – review
Joseph Connolly pulls the strings artfully in his sardonic portrait of 1950s England, writes Adam Mars-Jones
September 2012
England's Lane by Joseph Connolly – review
Gerard Woodward enjoys a tale of deceit and deception in 1950s London
April 2007
Into the depths
Joseph Connolly's Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary is a cracking melodrama of life in wartime, writes Stevie Davies.
September 2005
Hearth of darkness
Jem Poster on Joseph Connolly's unusual family saga, Love Is Strange.
August 2005
Family fortunes
Joseph Connolly ratchets up the embarrassment to almost painful levels in Love is Strange, his latest look at suburban lives and loves, says Adam Mars-Jones.
June 2003
More sex please, we're French
Joseph Connolly thought he had captured the essence of the English seaside with his novel Summer Things. But the makers of the French film version had other ideas
August 2001
Season of the kitsch
Get drunk and misbehave with Joseph Connolly's colouful SOS, or endure the dinner party from hell in Laura Lockington's 'ker-razy' Capers in the Sauce... Carrie O'Grady on the gaudy world of summer fiction
July 2001
Cruising for a bruising
Joseph Connolly sets SOS on an Atlantic crossing. Nicci Gerrard wanted to jump ship halfway
September 2000
Musical chairs
Justine Jordan on Joseph Connolly's comic horror, It Can't Go On
