Source: Review copy from the publisher, Transworld – thank you. It’s about time that I actually wrote some reviews, but this is a good place to start because, wow! I loved this book. It’s a comic novel about a dysfunctional but quirky family, yet manages to explore family dynamics and sibling rivalry seriously underneath, throwing Read More
Tag: Neurodivergent
Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal by Robin Ince
I read this between Christmas and New Year, and needless to say it resonated with me. If you’ve ever seen Robin Ince perform, you’ll know he’s quite a manic comedian, often preferring to riff rather than stick to his script (my encounter here). Radio 4 listeners will be familiar with him as Brian Cox’s ‘enthusiastic Read More
Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt – blog tour
Translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle I’m delighted to be leading off the blog tour for this novel by Swiss author Schmidt, who has lived in Iceland since 2007. I hadn’t realised that this novel is a sequel to his first book, just titled Kalmann, which one reviewer has likened to an ‘Icelandic Read More
