My review pile overfloweth, so some shorter write-ups are in order to reduce it a little. Bad Asians by Lilian Li I really enjoyed Li’s 2019 debut, Number One Chinese Restaurant, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize, an intergenerational comedy which followed the family owners and staff of a Chinese restaurant in Rockville, Maryland. Read More
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TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker
A new novel by Nicola Barker is something I always look forward to. Each one is totally different, yet quintessentially Barker, no-one captures the absurdities of life as she does. TonyInterruptor does this brilliantly. The novel all stems from an event at a jazz gig, where a man stands up and interrupts it with the Read More
The Axeman’s Carnival by Catherine Chidgey – blogtour.
The genus corvus, which includes rooks, crows, ravens, jays, jackdaws, choughs and magpies in its ranks is commonly believed to have the most intelligent of birds, and this is a novel about one such, a magpie, named Tama, who narrates the whole story. ‘Narrated by a bird!?’ I hear you ask. Couldn’t that be a Read More
