Granta Books

Telling Stories: Five 2016 Novels

Buried In Print2016-12-13T10:55:34-05:00

It's not all "Reader, I married him" but plenty of contemporary novels are preoccupied by the idea of storytelling, and often one voice does speak to us directly even now. Periscope Books, 2016 In Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane, the storyteller's direct address appears regularly and spiritedly.

Telling Stories: Five 2016 NovelsBuried In Print2016-12-13T10:55:34-05:00

Two Chilling Reads: The Dark and Secrecy

Buried In Print2014-05-13T15:03:24-04:00

Rupert Thomson's Secrecy is suffused with deliciously disturbing images and scenes. A thin, dark ribbon of sky. Bared teeth with clumps of hair. A dead bird that dangles from a girl’s first like a flower needing water. A snake skin shed in a doorway. A secret passage. A stabbed countess. A

Two Chilling Reads: The Dark and SecrecyBuried In Print2014-05-13T15:03:24-04:00