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.
“Continues to twist and mutate as it goes” – Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin (trans. by Megan McDowell)
“Has a little bit of everything” – Memorial by Bryan Washington
“There’s a lot going on here” – A River Called Time by Courttia Newland
“A cracking crime novel” – Long Bright River by Liz Moore
“Not a feel-good book” – Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
“Come for the humour” – Little Scratch by Rebecca Watson
“An exuberant, raucous book” – Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
“Will certainly tick your end of the world boxes” – My Name is Monster by Katie Hale
“Invigorating opinions” – The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard (trans. Mark Polizzotti)
“Tremendously likeable” – Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner
“Audaciously confident” – The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball
“Hybrid writing” – The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey
“An outlandish, take-no-prisoners satire” – The Hungry and the Fat by Timur Vermes
“More Mallory Towers than Harry Potter” – Abigail by Magda Szabó
“Ultimately lifeless” – Low by Jeet Thayil
“An undemanding page-turner” – Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid #booker2020
Bookmunch Books of the Year 2020
“A much more mature and measured work” – Witch Bottle by Tom Fletcher
“A work of love” – The Middle of a Sentence (ed. Brian Hamill)
“A book of the year” – Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
“Less would have been more” – Blackwood by Hannah Eaton
“You name it, this book has it” – Troy by Stephen Fry
“Warrants space on the shelves” – The Wolf of Baghdad by Carol Isaacs
“Perfect Christmas present material” – Murder in Midwinter ed. Cecily Gayford
50 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2021 (Pt 5)
50 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2021 (Pt 4)
50 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2021 (Pt 3)
50 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2021 (Pt 2)
