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
“You’ll read nothing like it this year” – The Stone Tide by Gareth E Rees
“It’s a marvellous piece of work” – Patient X by David Peace
“This is hybrid fiction in its new heyday” – Break.Up by Joanna Walsh
“All the comparisons to Beloved are warranted” – Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
“Every page holds a new promise; or a curve ball” – The Best Small Fictions 2017, ed. by Amy Hempel & Tara L Masih
“You can only achieve so much with a retelling” – Circe by Madeline Miller
“A bracing, empathetic account of life in turmoil” – The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
“Awful Males… could have been a better title to the collection” – The Dinner Party & Other Stories by Joshua Ferris
“Hunt is a tremendously talented fashioner of sentences” – The Evening Road by Laird Hunt
“Patricia Highsmith eat your heart out” – The Fall Guy by James Lasdun
“It’s a subtle wake-up call” – A Sweet, Wild Note by Richard Smyth
“This is one of our best writers at the top of their game” – House of Names by Colm Toibin
“It’s engaging if somewhat episodic” – Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti
“A little bit nearly not quite” – Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
“End aside, The Forensic Records Society is a delight” – The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills
“A promising but problematic debut” – Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
“Not, by any stretch of the imagination, a conventional book” – Narcotics by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
“An exuberant, full flavoured read” – The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla
Latvia 2018: Interviews with Inga Gaile, Janis Jonevs, Inese Zandere, Pauls Bankovskis & Inga Pizane
“A nation of book lovers” – Bookmunch in Latvia
“Long may monies and encouragement flow his way” – From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino
“Bright with potential” – One of the Boys by Daniel Margariel
March: On The Pile
“It’s a supremely pleasant read” – Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
“Piercing in its honesty” – The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
“Good times guaranteed” – The Disappeared by CJ Box
“Attentive to the intricate mechanics” – A Natural by Ross Raisin
“It’s a fantastic read and a significant book” – Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
