APRIL 2025

 

Just now, my booky bit of bedroom floor is holding Martin MacInnes's Booker-Prize listed In Ascension. A fine read indeed.

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I've been reading and commenting on several longish, unpublished manuscripts for fellow writers these last weeks, so I haven't had time to start on the tottering 'unread' stack, but am looking forward to doing this very much. The titles include Fair Helen by Andrew Greig, Camilla Bruce's You Let Me In, The Cornish Trilogy by twentieth-century Canadian writer Robertson Davies, and Kate Atkinson's latest Jackson Brodie novel Death At the Sign of the Rock. There's also Frances Beaumont's self-published biography/autobiography A Life Without Hands: John Oliver and Me.