I’m absolutely livid about the fact that I have somehow lost a very very long post I wrote about this book several months ago.
It’s a phenomenal, decade-spanning novelisation of the life of Minnette de Silva, a prominent Modernist architect from Sri Lanka. This debut novel is a funny, moving, entertaining and deeply informative exploration of the history of architecture and architectural theory across the majority of the twentieth century.
I laughed, I cried, I googled pictures of various buildings frequently – this is a rare example of a perfect novel, and I’m genuinely annoyed that my detailed, in-depth thoughts about it, written in the early Spring when it was fresh in my mind, somehow got lost in the [digital] move from being a highly employed Torontonian to an unemployed poet loitering in Tottenham.
Another excellent book from Influx Press – I honestly did write about it properly but when mass posting pre-written posts during the early Summer of 2022 it wasn’t in the [digital] folder with the others.
ORDER IT NOW DIRECT FROM INFLUX PRESS VIA THIS LINK
Please note this was not a review copy as a couple of the less popular Influx titles I’ve reviewed have been – I paid for it myself, including international shipping to Southern Ontario and it was worth THRICE the price. It truly is an excellent novel and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Here’s a video of me recently performing at the prestigious (it has a Wikipedia page) comedy night, Quantum Leopard. Listen to how much fun the crowd is having. You could have that much fun, too!
Forthcoming gigs include the following – there may/will be others:
18th February 2026, 7.30pm: Laughable, Wanstead Library
26th February 2026: Mirth Control, Bexhill-on-Sea
12th March 2025: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER 30 MIN WIP at Glasgow International Comedy Festival
26th March 2026, 7.30pm: Comedy @ Cosmic, Plymouth
May 2026: BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER FULL LENGTH WIP at the BRIGHTON FRINGE
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