Kate Atkinson - Cold Histories
Gripping and incredibly well written. Perhaps too many shadows of 90s lad culture ?
Vicente Luis Mora - Centroeuropa
One of the best I’ve read in a very long time. Magical realism in a muddy field in 1800s Prussia.
Andrew Michael Hurley - Starve Acre
Grief and isolation and the crimes of the past. Very bleak and atmospheric.
Oliver Burkeman - Mediations for Mortals
Essentially 4000 weeks chewed over and formed into daily nuggets. Very good all the same.
Ben Gazur - A Feast of Folklore
Nice round up of a lot of peculiar traditions and beliefs. The devil will steal your potatoes!
Bae Suah - Untold Night and DayLoved this. Dream-like is an overused descriptor but this deserves it. Shadows, images, symbols, collapsing in on themselves in a hot Seoul night.
Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine
Very lovely but a little empty. It’s a thickly textured slice of summer as a child, full of little scenes and stories. Pleasant.
Richared Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America
A very 60s slice of American surrealism. Little vignettes of life, only loosely connected, vaguely revolving around trout.
There is some amazing imagery and very funny bits.