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This was a weird and difficult one. "The Vivisectors" by Missouri Williams is a novel that has genuinely divided readers, and I've heard from people who have literally thrown it across the room in frustration, partly because its narrator is so deliberately withholding and hard to empathise with, and partly because of its unrelentingly cynical...
I've now read Marlon James's new 600-plus-page novel, "The Disappearers", and I'm still reeling from everything it stirred up in me. This is not a light or entertaining read, and it was never meant to be; James himself has acknowledged that his books aren't easy. But it took me on a journey that left me both challenged and changed. The novel ...
I just read "Black Bag" with my online book club, and it was such a pleasurable experience, both because the novel is genuinely fun and because it kept provoking deeper questions the whole way through, if you want to engage with it on that level. I also had the pleasure of interviewing Luke Kennard and we had a fun lengthy discussion about a ...
I want to give my thoughts on book III without spoilers, since this continues the journey of Tara as she’s caught in a time loop while the same day in November repeats itself. I’ve followed this story across the two previous volumes of
"Buckeye" is an utterly absorbing family epic, and although it spans multiple generations, it's really centred on two couples living in a small Ohio town, followed from the beginning of the Second World War through to the end of the Vietnam War. I spent that whole long stret...