This was my third Barker Books read of the summer. Originally, I’d planned to read Darkmans, but that is a doorstopper and time was running away so I picked H(A)PPY instead – I might as well have tackled the more straight-forward narrative of Darkmans though, given that H(A)PPY took me longer than anticipated to read! Read More
Tag: Breakdown
The Expansion Project by Ben Pester – #20BOS26 No 2
My second review of books read for 20 Books of Summer will probably, like the building described within, evolve when I revise it for Shiny New Books, as I will see the author next week, in conversation with M John Harrison at Blackwell’s for the latter’s new novel, The End of Everything. Tom Crowley works Read More
Wellcome Book Prize reading #6: Madness and Recovery
Mind on Fire by Arnold Thomas Fanning Subtitled ‘A Memoir of Madness and Recovery’, Fanning’s book tells the story of his battle with depression and bipolar disease. The book begins, however, with an episode from several years later during which he experienced mania and delusions – this prologue, told in a stream of consciousness style, Read More
