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Twenty-one years of solitary imprisonment have made the Kurdish freedom-fighter Muzafar-i Subhdam a nomad, roaming inside his own thoughts…
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No author has been more overlooked than Percival Everett.
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Within every journey, there are further visible and invisible journeys. This book will remain in your head and your heart for that reason alone.
Fourteen years later, Wendy C. Ortiz sifts the relics of an illicit relationship between teacher and student in her memoir Excavation.
Whilst cartoonish at times, Tyler Keevil’s The Drive is an entertaining and humorous road trip through the American wastelands.
Lazy Gramophone must be commended here for assembling in Time an anthology that at least attempts to marry shrewd accessibility with artsy conceptual considerations.
And the Mountains Echoed is a worthy and emotional successor from the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner whilst managing to be even more emotionally heart-wrenching.
A raucous and engaging opening in Marjorie Celona’s debut novel, Y, gives way to moments of ordinary imagery and characterisation that, ultimately, suggests better things are to come.
Equal parts thrilling romp and grim, unflinching inspection of the contemporary immigrant experience, Albert Enrique’s short story collection Hypothermia is literature at its bravest.
KS Silkwood’s King of the Jungle is an acerbic, energetic polemic of a novel, that revels in the hilarity and dilettantism of London’s art scene.
Idiopathy‘s hilarious prose, which is at turns terse and sharp and sprawling and circular, is reminiscent of David Foster Wallace at his most entrancing.
Daniel Ellis reviews Matt Hill’s debut novel, The Folded Man, and finds much to savour in this dystopian tale of broken Britain.
