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‘You have read this book before’ – The Deep Whatsis by Peter Mattei 27 Aug 2013 | 10:39 am
Whether you know it or not, it's highly likely you've read this book before in one incarnation or another. Did you read Joseph Heller's Something Happened? Or Joseph's son Ted's book, Slabrat? Have yo...
‘Don’t miss it!’ – Straight White Male by John Niven 26 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm
'Kennedy Marr is the protagonist; a womanising, drunk Irish former novelist who has immigrated to Hollywood to work in the film industry as a screenwriter. And, I expect, so that he can continue this ...
‘Party after party after party, drug after drug after drug, social media faux pas after social media faux pas after social media faux pas’ – Taipei by... 23 Aug 2013 | 12:04 pm
'Taipei seems like the kind of novel that will have a few people watching it in awe, elbowing their friends in the ribs and looking at each other with wide eyes, but it also feels like the kind of nov...
‘Is an interesting idea enough?’ – 3″ by Marc-Antoine Mathieu 22 Aug 2013 | 09:36 am
The book poses the question of what a reader needs - and quite possibly what a reader needs is a character, something more than a device that makes a book interesting. You ping every which way and the...
‘A disappointing collection’ – Beyond Rue Morgue – Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective – Edited by Paul Kane & Charles Prepolec 21 Aug 2013 | 07:25 am
'What surprised me most about this collection was how all the writers stuck to the crime genre with no real input from any other forms. Upon reading the biographies of all the authors, I saw that many...
‘The Guts isn’t perfect, but it’s a great read’ – The Guts by Roddy Doyle 20 Aug 2013 | 05:38 am
'The Guts is all about character: Jimmy's realisation of his mortality and the way he manages his various relationships, and the way those relationships are shown (honestly, with humour and with patho...
Books You Really Should’ve Read By Now (number three million and six): Tinkers by Paul Harding 19 Aug 2013 | 09:45 am
By way of getting you excited about the release of Paul Harding's second book, Enon, next month, we have decided to revisit his debut, Tinkers, a novel that didn't quite set the world alight sales-wis...
“I’m always re-investigating the past. I expect that will become more central rather than less from here on” – An interview with Daniel Woodrell, auth... 15 Aug 2013 | 10:26 am
"We've been following Daniel Woodrell since The Death of Sweet Mister about a decade ago and from book to book he has only gone from strength to strength - with his latest The Maid's Version being a t...
‘Feels like the book in which Woodrell makes his claim as ‘one of the world’s greatest novelists” – The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell 15 Aug 2013 | 10:24 am
Woodrell is a writer who has often been compared with Faulkner - The Maid's Version is the first of his novels to really embrace that comparison. He used to be a crime writer who wrote novels that fel...
‘Will jolt readers from the book saying NO WAY’ – The Highway by CJ Box 14 Aug 2013 | 09:49 am
'Now, in the past we may have complained about the fact that Cody Hoyt was something of a crime stereotype, the rogue copper who tears up the rulebook but gets better results than anyone else etc etc ...
