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THE ALARMING PALSY OF JAMES ORR by Tom Lee: Another About Face – Book Review

THE ALARMING PALSY OF JAMES ORR by Tom Lee: Another About Face – Book Review

by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews

Tom Lee (Granta) 2017, 153pp, RRP $24.99 A short story writer and academic, Lee’s first (and rather slim) novel is a crisply-written study of the plight of a titular character whom it’s almost impossible to like, which some readers might find odd or off-putting and...
EPILOGUE: A MEMOIR – A Movingly Personal Autobiography From Will Boast – Book Review

EPILOGUE: A MEMOIR – A Movingly Personal Autobiography From Will Boast – Book Review

by Dave Bradley | Jan 17, 2015 | Books, Reviews

Will Boast, (Granta) 2015, 281pp, RRP $27.99 Boast’s movingly personal autobiography’s title is taken from his belief that he was an ‘epilogue’ in his family when he lost his mother (brain tumour), brother (car accident) and Dad (perforated ulcer) all within some...
SEVERED: A HISTORY OF HEADS LOST AND HEADS FOUND – Book Review

SEVERED: A HISTORY OF HEADS LOST AND HEADS FOUND – Book Review

by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2014 | Books, Reviews

Frances Larson (Granta) 2014, 317pp, RRP $39.99 Author and Oxford research fellow Larson’s compelling, sometimes gruesomely fascinating book was inspired by her time at the Pitt Rivers Museum, where a bunch of shrunken heads proved very popular (even ‘cool’) and...


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