SOMEBODY LOVES YOU: a strong debut from an author with room to grow
The disparate strands of Somebody Loves You from Mona Arshi make for a strong debut that never quite soars.
The disparate strands of Somebody Loves You from Mona Arshi make for a strong debut that never quite soars.
With the modern world such an unholy mess Robin McLean catapults us back to the Wild West in Pity the Beast.
Sammy Wright's book Fit casts a grim but absorbing view into young, contemporary Britain with mixed levels of detail.
The title of Elisa Victoria's Oldladyvoice has a double meaning - walking a tightrope between 'good' and 'bad' kinds of weird.
In between titles offering broadsides against, respectively, bad food on trains and Welsh neoliberalism, we find novels about Turkish gangsters in London, a world without working electricity and a man who get uploaded into his group chat...
Including a familial rock memoir from Baxter Dury, ruminations on vintage UK TV by Rob Young and a marquee late-summer novel release by Leïla Slimani.
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THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE BETWEEN WORLDS: A QUEER BOY FROM THE VALLEYS Jeffrey Weeks (Parthian) Jeffrey Weeks is a well-known gay activist, historian and author of …
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Fleur Jaeggy, Trans: Tim Parks (And Other Stories) Sometimes less really is more, and Fleur Jaeggy’s novel, Sweet Days of Discipline exemplifies this. Though it’s a considerably short piece by usual standards …
César Aira, trans: Chris Andrews (And Other Stories) Although the narrator is not explicitly declared to be César Aira, The Lime Tree certainly seems to be a fictionalised autobiography of the Argentinian …