Holly Sykes fills this book. Bookmarking the beginning and end with first-person narration, we experience her life as a fifteen year-old runaway and as a grandmother trying to protect her children in a world falling apart at the seams. But in the intervening years we catch glimpses of her from the perspectives of a cast of acquaintances, lovers and friends such as the Bret Easton Ellis-esque sociopathic monster that is Hugo Lamb, a twenty-something egotistical conman intent on scoring against his rich Cambridge cohorts; the […]
A whimsically surreal comic about music and being a freak at school that will appeal to both adults and children alike.
Joey Moonhead is easily distracted. Prone to daydreaming and not particularly interested in day to day life at school, he is very much an ordinary boy… that is, except for the small fact that he has a floating moon for a head. Throughout the day his disembodied head drifts off, leaving the rest of his body to get on with life as he tries to escape the humdrum world around him. The thing that finally wakes him up is the discovery of his parent’s classic […]
A subtle and introspective novel from the Japanese master, filled with all the Murakami tropes we know and love.
Falling more on the Norwegian Wood side of the Murakami colour-wheel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage finds him once again contemplating love and friendship in a fairly straightforward and meditative way. Tsukuru Tazaki builds railway stations. Hard working and slightly obsessive, he’s found the perfect job. One that rewards him for having an encyclopaedic memory of train lines, a love of busy platforms and a keen eye for the routes passengers take. But he also has a low level of self-worth, having been ostracised from his […]
An unsettling and creepy selection of macabre short stories with a gothic twist and atmospheric artwork.
Foreboding spirits lurk in the background of these short stories by Emily Carroll. Demons burrow under the skin, a wife seeks revenge from beyond the grave and a young man believes his brother has been replaced by an imposter. These five short gothic stories are fantastically eerie folktales, populated by people consumed by jealousy, fear and loneliness. One of the stories, His Face All Red, first appeared online, and it’s interesting to see it rearranged from its original vertical scrolling incarnation. You can have a read […]
My debut of the year so far! A gripping novel set in early 1980’s rural America about a paranoid survivalist and the social worker he pulls into his dangerous orbit.
Pete Snow is calm on the surface, a caring social worker intent on saving the children he encounters from their violent or drug-addled parents. But beneath that exterior lies a blizzard. Although he tries his hardest to take care of other people’s families, he’s slowly losing his own as his wife and daughter move to another state entirely and are caught up in things beyond their control. His brother is on the run from the law and he often spends his time blackout drunk or […]
A classic thriller about an assassin on the run and the lengths he will go to in order to survive, lovingly reissued with a new introduction by Robert MacFarlane.
I’d never read Rogue Male before. I’d heard of it, often in glowing or nostalgic terms, and this new reissue by Orion seemed as good a reason as any to pick it up and give it a spin. Presented as a series of letters sent from the protagonist to his solicitor, Rogue Male is a personal and exciting novel about solitude, ingenuity in the face of defeat, and survival. An anonymous British sportsman is arrested in a similarly unnamed European country, assumed to be Germany, after attempting to assassinate […]
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