No 529 The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier #DDMreadingweek
The House on the Strand would have been a surprise to me had I not recently read Du Maurier’s short story collection Don’t Look Now and Other Stories and particularly the story The Breakthrough. Given that my only previous knowledge of her work was Rebecca, I was not expecting an entertaining slice of historical science…
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Don’t Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier #DDMreadingweek
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No 547 Animals by Keith Ridgway
A few year ago I read, and loved, Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway. A surreal esoteric detective novel, its weirdness was wonderful so I was highly anticipating this earlier novel, Animals. Ostensibly, Animals charts the mental and physical breakdown of an unnamed narrator, as he wanders around his city and becomes terrifyingly aware of…
Foe by Iain Reid for the R.I.P Challenge
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
No 549 Twilight by William Gay
