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A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
An eclectic, intimate and beautifully written novel about mental health, loneliness, and Art Installations.
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Phone by Will Self
Opaque and frustrating and bloated and yet, for brief moments, utterly brilliant.
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Playing Possum by Kevin Davey
A playful, modernist piss-take with literary Easter eggs that went right over my head, though not to the detriment of the novel.
Read MoreSo Who Should Have Won The Goldsmith Prize
For those of you who have forgotten (which includes me) here are the nominees and links to my thoughtful, though confusing, reviews. Beatlebone by Kevin Barry (Canongate) Acts of Assassins by Richard Beard (Harvill Secker) Satin...
Read MoreBook Review: Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Bottom Line: An experimental, heartfelt, passionate novel about that time when John Lennon went to visit his island just to get away from it all. Representative Paragraph: John Lennon deconstructs himself JOHN: Do you really...
Read MoreBook Review: Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Bottom Line An experimental and extraordinary novel about loss, mourning and the stages of grief. Read it. Representative Paragraph It’s a book that requires more than one representative quote: The doorbell rang and I...
Read MoreBook Review: The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Magnus Mills
Bottom Line A thoughtful novel, written like a fable, that takes its inspiration from the settlement and invasion of the British Isles. While the book succeeds in exploring thorny issues such as immigration and religion without...
Read MoreBook Review: Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beard
Bottom Line An intelligent novel with a wonderful central conceit which looks at the intersection of faith and rationality while also exploring the idea of religion as a political movement that aims to upset the status quo....
Read MoreBook Review: Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell
Bottom Line A tiresome novel that feels like it was published in the 90s with its neurotic middle class white guy (unemployed) looking for meaning in his life while he obsesses over his wife and lover. Avoid. Representative...
Read MoreSo who should have won this year’s Man Booker Prize?
As reminder below are the nominees and links to my reviews. Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld Publications) Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (Jonathan Cape) Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen (ONE, Pushkin Press)...
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