Joshua Ferris' Then We Came to the End Little Brown, 2007 One might accuse writers like Doug Harris and Joshua Ferris of trying to be clever in having chosen unusual narrative perspectives for their novels: You comma Idiot is told in the second-person and Then We Came to the End
Daphne Du Maurier's The Birds (1952) Arrow Books, 1992 Virago Modern Classic No. 498 My favourite story from this collection is "The Apple Tree". Partly because I've long believed that there is more to a tree than one might think, thanks to years of reading L.M. Montgomery's novels, in which
Dinaw Mengestu "An Honest Exit" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 July 12/19, 2010 issue The story begins with an imagined conversation: "Thirty-five years after my father left Ethiopia, he died in a room in a boarding house in Peoria, Illinois, that came with a partial view of the
Andrea Levy’s Every Light in the House Burnin’ Review-Headine 1994 Earlier this year I read The Long Song and I was immediately and happily absorbed by Andrea Levy's storytelling, but I was concerned that she might not hold my interest; instead my interest intensified. Similarly, if I had started with Every Light in
Diana Wynne Jones' Charmed Life (1977) Harper Collins, 2007 Chrestomanci Book 1 You’ve probably heard it too: Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci series is better than Harry Potter. And, yes, that it came first (so, not to be confused with the myriad of Potter-knock-offs). Which it did and, if the first
