Cubby’s Adventures in Petlandia by Steve Cleverley & Katja Hammond
Read about my problematic relationship… with my dog.
Category: Book Review
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…
Forbidden Line by Paul Stanbridge
a review of a difficult book
Tres by Roberto Bolaño
A glimmer of hope: I am almost able to read in Spanish.
Mornings in Mexico by D. H. Lawrence
DHL happy in Mexico, then beautifully sad elsewhere.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
an accurate depiction of the lust and boredom that threatens to overwhelm all of us who aren’t pious, delusional, fuckheads
Hillary Clinton Haiku by Vera G. Shaw
This isn’t a real review of a real book, IT’S SCOTT ON SOCIAL ANXIETY!!!
Berg by Ann Quin
“Help me, help me,” I cry, “I’m too sober to read”.
Home and Away by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund
A charming, quirky, book tainted by middle aged white male bullshit.
The Fictional Man by Al Ewing
I read some serviceable pulp.
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
I’m bored of life, but this book’s a banger.
The Fight by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer writes energetically and racistly about boxing
The Bricks That Built the Houses by Kate Tempest
The publishing industry has fucked over Kate Tempest.
On translation and Quiet Flows the Una by Faruk Šehić
Gorgeous Bosnian novel and my thoughts on the role of translators
Suicide Notes by Lewis Parker
Another book of poetry from up-and-coming indie publisher Morbid Books.
The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron
The ‘Godfather of Rap’ offers a rose-tinted memoir.
Preacher: Book Four by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher is fine, but it’s irrelevant to real life. I should adopt a Syrian child refugee.
Sodom and Gomorrah (À la recherche du temps perdu 4) by Marcel Proust
A La Recherche du Temps Perdu 4: This Time It’s Gay
Triumph Of The Now 