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Not my favourite prize but I seem unable to resist putting together a wish list for the Booker, quite possibly because I know very few will be fulfilled but I’m keen to give some more neglected titles an airing even though they’re unlikely to have been nominated let alone make the judges’ grade. To be …
It took me some time to get around to reading Brandon Taylor’s Real Life thanks to the hype surrounding it when it was first published but I enjoyed it when I did, certainly enough to read The Late Americans whose premise also appealed. Reading like a series of intricately linked short stories, Taylor’s thought-provoking novel …
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor: Finding your way in the world Read More »
I’m kicking off this second instalment of June’s new fiction with a novel by a writer whose debut had a great deal of prepublication attention. I much prefer Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans to Real Life but perhaps all that brouhaha had raised my expectations unrealistically high. Reading like a series of intricately linked short stories, …
Books to Look Out For Out for in June 2023: Part Two Read More »