Author: bookmunch
Peter Wild is the co-author of Befoe the Rain and the editor of The Flash, Perverted by Language: Fiction inspired by The Fall, The Empty Page: Fiction inspired by Sonic Youth (US: Noise: Fiction inspired by Sonic Youth) & Paint a Vulgar Picture: Fiction inspired by The Smiths. You can read more at www.peterwild.com
“Almost very good indeed” – Wolf by Rachael Ball
“2018 Booker winner” – Milkman by Anna Burns
“Deeply humane” – Heimat by Nora Krug
“Mankell’s full stop” – After the Fire by Henning Mankell
“A wild ride” – Vernon Subutex 1 & 2 by Virginie Despentes
“Makes you appreciate what you have” – Cree by Una
“A book to savour”- Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
“A whole lot of craziness” – Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
“Wow and wow and wow and wow…” – Square Eyes by Anna Mill and Luke Jones
“Stories that are a joy to read” – Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
“We enjoyed them even more than we did the first time around” – Lovecraft by INJ Culbard
“Smith is the most modern writer we have at the moment” – Winter by Ali Smith
“Can be a bit of a lidless jigsaw at times” – Collusion by Luke Harding
“A microcosm of Irish history” – On the Edge by Diarmaid Ferriter
September: On The Pile
‘The best Hornby since High Fidelity’ – Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
“Fairly lukewarm” – Snap by Belinda Bauer
“A philosophical exploration of what is meant by identity” – The Lies That Bind by Kwame Anthony Appia
“Younger readers beware” – La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
“It’s the authenticity that shines through” – In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
“Shelley aficionados will find little new here” – In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson
Here’s what we thought of the Booker shortlist 2018
“The first lesser deWitt” – French Exit by Patrick deWitt
“Where the novel stumbles is in its pacing” – Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley
‘All manner of tap-tap-tapping on the ceilings and the walls” – The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
“A wry, amusing account ” – The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
“Firmly in the kooky-annoying camp” – The Changeling by Joy Williams
“Entertaining and affable” – Gloucester Crescent by William Miller
