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 …
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Summerwater
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 …
The End We Start From
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 …
Swimmer Among the Stars
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 …
Salt Slow
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 …