Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
Tag: Gothic
Fludd by Hilary Mantell
an early novel from a writer who’d get more exciting with age
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
mediocre prose and a child bride: time to cancel Poe
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
an underwhelming but important read
Paymon’s Trio by Colette de Curzon
a short story chapbook that’s fine, no more, no less
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.
9th and 13th by Jonathan Coe
I picked this up a while ago from a secondhand bookshop somewhere, shortly after reading Jonathan Coe’s Like A FieryContinue Reading
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (The Omnibus Edition) by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
I hadn’t read a graphic novel/comic book in a while, so thought I’d have a go with one of theContinue Reading
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Sticking with middle-brow Scottish literature, I followed Irvine Welsh’s Filth with another dark, scary, psychological story about a disturbed ScottishContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 