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.
“An obvious labour of love” – Diego Rivera by Francisco de la Mora and José Luis Pescador
“Not a bad second best” – The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
“A pleasure to read” – Safety in Numbers by Roger McGough
“Beautifully wrought” – The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
“By turns lyrical and direct” – Beneath the Trees of Eden by Tim Binding
“Hard not to enjoy yourself” – The Young HG Wells by Claire Tomalin
“Absolutely essential” – Fear Stalks The Land & Kid A Mnesia by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
“Impossible to categorize” – An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky (trans. by Jackie Smith)
“The older he gets, the better he gets” – Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
“An engaging tale” – Glide by Alison Jean Lester
‘A full and complicated George Sprott’ – George Sprott 1894-1975 A Picture Novella by Seth
“A book that deserves coffee shops of readers” – The Other Jack by Charles Boyle
“May fascinate or frustrate” – The Dust Never Settles by Karina Lickorish Quinn
“The Sopranos deserves better” – Woke Up This Morning by Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa with Philip Lerman
“Frustrating and meandering” – Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
“Funny, astute, absolutely terrifying” – The Every by Dave Eggers
“Brilliantly maintained” – The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore
“An encyclopaedia of the out of the way” – 533, A Book of Days by Cees Nooteboom
“These are the thoughts we need to be thinking” – On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, ill. Nora Krug
“A different kind of book/s” – Xstabeth / The Towers The Fields The Transmitters by David Keenan
“Erudite and sophisticated and disobedient” – Oppositions: Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
“Intelligent and gripping” – House With No Doors by Jeff Noon
“Overtly about a crisis” – The Fell by Sarah Moss
“Hard to resist” – The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
“Both playful and sharp like teeth” – Dearly by Margaret Atwood
‘Brilliant and surprising’ – Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
“Modan is a Satrapi” – Tunnels by Rutu Modan
“A classic book” – Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
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