Granta’s Best Young British Novelists – an update
I have now read at least one book by all twenty of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists so I feel I should now make a few comments. A couple of…
I have now read at least one book by all twenty of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists so I feel I should now make a few comments. A couple of…
The latest addition to my website is Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows. This is a story about allegiances (and lack thereof) and identity. All of the main characters struggle with who…
The latest addition to my website is Helen Oyeyemi's Mr Fox. This is a modern updating on the Bluebeard legend. St John Fox is a 1930s US writer whose novels…
The latest addition to my website is Benjamin Markovits' Childish Loves, his third novel about Lord Byron. Unlike his previous two, this one mixes in (semi-)autobiographical details with Byron's story,…
The latest addition to my website is Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts. I found it a rather contrived novel that did not really work for me. It tells the…
The latest addition to my website is Adam Foulds' The Quickening Maze. This a story about the poet John Clare and, to a much lesser degree, the poet Alfred Tennyson.…
The latest addition to my website is Ross Raisin's God's Own Country (US: Out Backward). It is a story told by Sam Marsdyke, a solitary eighteen-year old who lives on…
The latest addition to my website is Joanna Kavenna's . This is a novel about childbirth. There are four separate but linked stories about childbirth. The first is set in…
The latest addition to my website is Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy. Mohamed is one of the Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, though she is Somali and this novel is…
The latest addition to my website is Xiaolu Guo's 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. Though nominally written in English, it was in fact her first novel published in Chinese.…