Category: Other fiction
The Broken World – Tim Etchells
June 5th, 2009, No Comments
The Broken World Tim Etchells 420 pages published in 2008 Long live the public library. If it wasn’t for the fact that Night of Knives caught my eye having, I never would’ve seen The Broken World lurking nearby on the shelve, with a cover that looked like it could be something sufficiently science fictional as [...]
Saturday — Ian McEwan
February 15th, 2009, No Comments
Saturday Ian McEwan 278 pages published in 2005 I’ve been suspicious of Ian McEwan ever since I read his Book prize winning novel Amsterdam and almost threw the book against the wall at the denouncement where McEwan descended into stupid cliches about the Netherlands’ attitude towards euthenasia. That suspicion deepened when it turned out McEwan, [...]
The Steep Approach to Garbadale – Iain Banks
February 7th, 2008, No Comments
The Steep Approach to Garbadale Iain Banks 390 pages published in 2007 A few days ago Roz Kaveney, in a review of Bank’s latest Culture novel, argued that it’s the Iain M. Banks science fiction novels are his serious contribution to literature, while the conventional literary novels he writes as Iain Banks are “more frivolous [...]
