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