Why I still love bookshops
I’ve written about bookshops a lot on this blog over this years. There’s a good reason for this. For me, good bookshops have always…
Q&A with the founders of new indie publisher Dodo Ink
Dodo Ink is a new independent publisher in the UK, promising to publish “bold, daring, risky but accessible literary novels”. They’re currently…
The best of people
The more I see of the world, the more I realise that we’re really quite limited as a species. In small groups,…
Review of All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
The first thing to say about this book is that the prose is just stunning. It had me hooked from the first…
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner: Review
I think I have a problem with over-hyped books. Although the hype is never true, I always end up believing it, and…
Jacks Hill Road by Jennifer Grahame
We’ve all driven down one of those streets, haven’t we? One of those streets where the lawns are manicured, the pavements are clean and…
Review of The Pimlico Kid by Barry Walsh
Writing about Indian Magic recently reminded me of another book set in the 1960s, one I read a while ago and wanted…
Indian Magic by Balraj Khanna
Lately I’ve been reading quite a few books with complex structures and experimental elements. In the middle of all that, it was…
The Chocolate Shop Perverts by Ernest Alanki
Outsiders make great literary characters. Their otherness makes them naturally interesting characters, and it’s also fascinating to see “normal” people and social conventions…