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
“It just doesn’t work anywhere near hard enough” – Ice Cream Man Vol.1: Rainbow Sprinkles by W Maxwell Prince & Martin Morazzo
“Hand’s down, book of the year” – Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers
“She writes with a versality” – Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
“The sound of pain forgetting itself in song” – There There by Tommy Orange
“To repair itself unto infinity” – Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
‘What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?’ – The Children Act by Ian McEwan
“Like Harriet the Spy for grown-ups” – Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin
“Gets points for construction, for ambition, for erudition and for heart” – Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
“The creeping unease kept me going” – The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
“Lacks the satisfying swagger of noir” – The Long Take by Robin Robertson
“Not her strongest collection” – Days of Awe by AM Homes
“Everyone’s ‘truth’ is exploitable” – The Secret Life by Andrew O’Hagan
“Extremely thought-provoking” – A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
“Every page provokes” – The Future Won’t Be Long by Jarett Kobek
“Disappointing would-be literary chiller” – Lullaby by Leila Slimani
July: On The Pile
“It’s hard to work out what fits where” – The Red Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
“Falls short” – Lion’s Honey by David Grossman
“Fall fans will deride this product” – Messing up the Paintwork: The Wit & Wisdom of Mark E Smith (ed. by Tom Clayton)
“An experience quite apart from the usual” – The Cloven by B Catling
“The poetic, the profound and the playful” – Weight by Jeanette Winterson
“An enjoyable and evocative portrait of a marriage” – A Long Island Story by Rick Gekoski
“Funny, acerbic and captivating” – My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
“The key to understanding the mysteries of the cosmos” – Sophisticated Figures by Ian Stewart
“A diversion ripe with playfulness” – Flush by Virginia Woolf
“Clever and entertaining” – The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
“The oddness requires a little time to settle” – Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
“This is book as well-dressed friend” – The Uncorrected by Billy Childish
