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In the titular tale, retired serial killer Kim Byeongsu is forgetting everything – words, days, events, the last person he murdered.
In the titular tale, retired serial killer Kim Byeongsu is forgetting everything – words, days, events, the last person he murdered.
A second sweeping and ambitious novel from the talented Australian Hammer, whose debut, Scrublands, last year won a string of literary prize nominations.
HISTORY NUKING THE MOON by Vince Houghton (Profile £9.99, 304 pp) Conspiracy or cock-up? I have long subscribed to the cock-up theory of human disaster myself, because I believe more in things going wrong than going very, very right. Vince Houghton, though, believes in both. He’s very interested in conspiracies, but only in the ones … Read more
WHAT BOOK would Wilbur Smith take to a desert island? Wilbur Smith revealed that he’s currently reading The Egyptian by Mika Waltari He would take My African Journey by Winston Churchill to a desert island He said King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard gave him the reading bug By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:09 … Read more
PSYCHO THRILLERS By Christena Appleyard for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 16:50 BST, 17 January 2020 THE WOODS by Vanessa Savage (Sphere £16.99, 400 pp) THE WOODS by Vanessa Savage (Sphere £16.99, 400 pp) There is a cool directness about Savage’s writing that is making her name in a … Read more
MEMOIR THE COLOUR OF THE SKY AFTER RAIN by Tessa Keswick (Head of Zeus £30, 384 pp) When King George III’s ambassador was trying to negotiate a trade deal in China in 1793, he decided to curry favour with the Emperor by presenting him with a carriage which, thanks to advanced British engineering, was the … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK A WORLD OF MY OWN by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (Adlard Coles £10.99, 256 pp) We live in a world of maximum connectivity, where you can sit in Abu Dhabi and do keyhole surgery on someone in Aberdeen; where a Twitter frenzy in Kenilworth can be picked up in seconds in Kyoto; … Read more
SCI-FI/FANTASY By Jamie Buxton For Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 16:36 BST, 17 January 2020 HIGHFIRE by Eoin Colfer (Jo Fletcher £16.99, 384 pp) HIGHFIRE by Eoin Colfer (Jo Fletcher £16.99, 384 pp) Meet Vern, a trash-talking dragon; Squib, a swamp-dwelling Cajun of scant resources and good intentions, but avoid … Read more
POPULAR FICTION By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 16 January 2020 | Updated: 16:33 BST, 17 January 2020 MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) MIXTAPE by Jane Sanderson (Bantam £12.99, 416 pp) Back in 1970s Sheffield, teenage pop obsessives Dan and Alison were madly in love. But then Alison … Read more