The second novel by Every Time I Die frontman, Keith Buckley, is a short but brilliant book about what happens when you're forced to bear witness to the events of your past. It follows Scale, published in 2015, and while it carries some stylistic similarities with that book, which centres on an …
Book Reviews
Book Review: The Sound of Loneliness, by Craig Wallwork
Daniel Crabtree comes from a long line of young writers who believe that great work is born only from great suffering. Accordingly, Crabtree has left the comfort of his parents' home to live alone, in an unfurnished apartment in Salford, where he survives on a diet of flour and John Smiths. Inspired …
Book Review: Sisyphean, by Dempow Torishima
Originally published in 2013, and translated here by Daniel Huddlestone, Sisyphean—a word that refers to a task that can never be completed—is a work of mind-boggling complexity and almost uncategorizable weirdness. Incorporating elements of horror, mystery, Japanese folklore, interstellar space …
Book Review: Pike, by Benjamin Whitmer
They call it noir—or possibly neo-noir—which, of course, is the French for black. However, if there’s a word, in any language, for the colour darker than black, well, then that’s the word I’d use to describe Pike. Because Jeez-us Christ, this is dark. And violent. Ohhh, my God, so much violence. …
Book Review: What Belongs To You, by Garth Greenwell
Some books, you actively seek out. Others find you. Some you read on recommendation—just hearing the title, and the way someone says it can be enough. A single adjective. Hell, sometimes even an Amazon algorithm turns out something special. How I came by this book, I really can’t recall. It just …