"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." Umberto Eco
"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." Umberto Eco
Matt Ruff. Pan Macmillan. (384p) ISBN 9781509883356 Soon to be an HBO Series! Got to love those printed stickers on books. Now that the gripe is out of the way 😉 Lovecraft Country was low on the cosmic horror side of the Lovecraftian mythos, but high on the adventure and thrills. Matt Ruff sets his …
Sarah Moss. Pan Macmillan. (208p) ISBN 9781529035476 I tried to read this during the middle of the biggest reading slump I’ve ever had and just couldn’t, and after reading it in two sittings this time I really should have tried harder. A brilliantly realised character study of several families and their motivations during a summer …
Megan Hunter. Pan Macmillan. (144p) ISBN 9781509843985 This is the first time I’ve come across the term cli-fi when describing a genre of fiction, I’ve usually classified books I’ve read about climate change disaster as speculative fiction, but cli-fi is much better. The End We Start From follows the female protagonist through a sudden climate …
Kanishk Tharoor. Pan Macmillan. (256p) ISBN 9781509822201 If you followed me on my old Twitter account you may have already realised that I love the short story format as a vehicle for delivering beautiful and compact prose, sometimes almost poetic, and Kanishk Tharoor’s debut collection, Swimmer Among the Stars, is one of the best examples …
Julia Armfield. Pan Macmillan. (160p) ISBN 9781529012590 A brilliant collection of short stories, Salt Slow caught my eye when it arrived as a paperback a couple of days back. Initially the cover but I’m always intrigued by short gothic tales. Brilliant opening with a Kafkaesque pubescence playing with a cliched male chat up line, a …