Booking brilliant?
Disgrace could only improve after my initial (well, fifty-page), bored reaction that it was a tedious Outsider variation with no special features, such as Arab shootings and death penalties.
Books: 'Rural weirdness'
Described in a rather dull fashion as "a cautionary tale of labour and capital", Magnus Mill's second novel is an enjoyably offbeat experience. Its themes, style and atmosphere are very similar to his previous book, the Booker prize-nominated The Restraint of Beasts; but this shouldn't be held against him, as his stories of rural weirdness are pretty much unique....
Books: Five-star fruit feast?
Underneath the book's mysterious title and even more mysterious cover, adorned with close-up shots of fruit, Fasting, Feasting proves a compelling exploration of the social pathos common to families born in different lands.