Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet (Book One) by Ta-Nehisi Coates & Brian Stelfreeze
A collection that would be exciting if there was more of it…
Category: Book Review
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
A pointless book for pointless people.
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
An important new novel about sexual assault. Long post.
Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir by Daniel Roy Connelly
A book that describes itself as “Ian Fleming meets Rimbaud”
Gross In Feather, Loud In Voice by Judson Hamilton
Emotive, bizarre, inventive, stories.
The Night Visitors by Jenn Ashworth & Richard V. Hirst
Great book, plus lots about why I didn’t win the award I was shortlisted for.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
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Music & Literature No. 7
I get angry and confused because I’m repressed and have elitist interests
The Son by Andrej Nikolaidis
More contemporary Balkan writings and my opinions on criminalisation of narcotics
Till Kingdom Come by Andrej Nikolaidis
Some cracking Montenegrin fiction
In Love With HS2 & Awards Excitement
new article & award attention elsewhere
The Coming by Andrej Nikolaidis
My Balkan adventure continues
Homunculus by Aleksandar Prokopiev
Contemporary fairy tales from Macedonia
Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed by Liam Hogan
My latest review over at Open Pen discusses the point of fiction…
The Ladybird Book of The Hangover by J.A. Hazeley & J.P. Morris
Humour books about the bottle don’t sit right
Cubby’s Adventures in Petlandia by Steve Cleverley & Katja Hammond
Read about my problematic relationship… with my dog.
In the Company of Ghosts: The Poetics of the Motorway edited by Alan Corkish
driving myself crazy / reading books about the motorway
Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabel
Good Czech book, but do I need to try harder to czech my privilege?
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
[insert Nabokov/nobokov joke or something?]
All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
A good novel about regret and running away
Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams
drowning in sobriety like I used to drown in booze; even sublime prose can’t hoist me happy
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Pond is great, but like My Chemical Romance, I’m Not OK.
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
We need to talk about how you wouldn’t get a literary novelist called Kevin in England
The Faithful Couple by A.D. Miller
A rare book on male friendship, but do we need more books starring rich hetero white men?
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
books on race loved by the privileged make me nervous
Dysfunctional Males by Fernando Sdrigotti
Men are disgusting.
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
If Gregor Hens can give up smoking, I can give up booze.
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
some contemporary literary fiction about scotland
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
What’s the difference between comics and cartoons?
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
this is not a test, it’s a memoir
Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood & Johnnie Christmas
Atwood made a comic book, it’s fun but that’s about it
The House of the Dead by Daniel Beer
a non-fiction book that suffers from russian round
Open City by Teju Cole
transcript of a presentation from happier days
The Road To Tahrir Square by Lloyd C. Gardner
US so vain, I bet you think Arab Spring is about you
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
If Greer – who doesn’t believe in non-binary genders – is correct, then I am a woman.
“Herod’s Filthy Bathtime” from The Body and the Baptist
Once upon a time, I was trying to be a writer…
Blitzed by Norman Ohler
Hipster military history: if you’re not cool, this isn’t for you…
A Death In The Family: My Struggle Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Once I was young and unafraid.
The Bowie Neurotransmitter by Susana Medina
It’s a godawful small affair
The Man With The Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters edited by Fergus Fleming
He always writes while others talk
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men: they wear T-shirts saying “Smash the patriarchy” with an arrow pointing at their penis
Ice by Anna Kavan
x, x, baby / you’re cold as x / didn’t have x cube so you bought vanilla x
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Max Porter Works In Publishing
Nomad by Alan Partridge
National treasure Alan produces a national treasure of a book.
Trump & Me by Mark Singer
Trump cannot and will not be ignored.
A Shorter Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, ed. Anthony Burgess
Can Burgess turn this tough novel into a frothy paperback? No.
Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition by Malcolm Lowry
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
This dystopian novel feels a bit too 2016…
Triumph Of The Now 