Author: bookmunch
Peter Wild is the author of The Passenger & a biography of Akira Kurosawa, as well as co-author of Before 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.
“Better even than we expected” – Chivalry by Colleen Doran and Neil Gaiman
“Offers questions as well as answers” – Everybody Hertz by Richard Mainwaring
“HDM flash fictions” – The Imagination Chamber by Philip Pullman
“Two parts Haruki Murakami and two parts Banana Yoshimoto” – The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
“We liked it a whole lot” – Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz
“If you like Ann Patchett or Rónán Hession, you’ll love this one” – Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine
“Transformational, elliptical and animated” – Big Snake, Little Snake DBC Pierre
“Goes from strength to strength” – The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
“You won’t read anything else like this in 2022” – Liarmouth by John Waters
“More statement than soap opera” – Are You Enjoying? by Mira Sethi
“Doesn’t outstay its welcome” – Reward System by Jem Calder
“One for aficionados of historical fiction” – The Black Drop by Leonora Nattrass
“A compelling mystery” – Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling
“A thriller that failed to thrill” – A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris
“Pigs at the trough” – Chums by Simon Kuper
“A book you can read for the writing alone” – Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
“There are chuckles here” – Pure Gold by John Patrick McHugh
“Very, very readable” – The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
“A holiday in bookform” – Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson
“Immediately recognisable” – My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
“An audacious balancing act” – The Trees by Percival Everett
“Unflinching yet lyrical” – This World Does Not Belong to Us by Natalia Garcia Freire
“Bridging a divide” – The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin
“Immensely powerful” – The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
“Extremely acute” – Assembly by Natasha Brown #GoldsmithsPrize2021
“Smart, beautiful and very entertaining” – The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
“Utilises its multiple perspectives to great effect” – China Room by Sunjeev Sahota #bookerprize
“We liked it” – Days of Sand by Aimee de Jongh (trans. Christopher Bradley)
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