One Thing by Xanthi Barker
deeply affecting, affectingly deep
Tag: novella
Ambergris by Jeff VanderMeer
a big book about mushrooms that are magic (not magic mushrooms)
Dinosaur by Adam Lock
an intriguing text, tho a last chapter I hated
I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
very very very good novella from 2016
The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
A 1952 Nigerian classic, bad coffee and chasing Canadian healthcare
Silas Marner by George Eliot
a lovely fucking novel
Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
like my life, a novel that’s half tragedy, half farce
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
shellshock and amnesia and different kindsa love
Takeaway by Tommy Hazard
the London Ambulance service gets the Morbid Books treatment
Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre
Some newly-translated cracking French fiction
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.
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Max Porter Works In Publishing
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vegetarian by Han Kang is an odd book. I bought it for myself on my mad, wild, Foyles birthdayContinue Reading
The Last Summer by Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak was the author of Doctor Zhivago, which I didn’t realise when I picked up this slim novella aboutContinue Reading
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by Will Self
I bought this for two pounds in a Walthamstow Oxfam. Definitely worth it. A tiny little picaresque novella, less thanContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 