Keeping the House | And Other Stories
Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards, […]| And Other Stories
Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards, […]| And Other Stories
An academic walks into a room. He is faced by eight other people. He’s a late arrival, the meeting is almost over. A government official introduces him badly, getting his name wrong, misrepresenting his work and generally not having done his research properly. It’s an inauspicious start to his involvement in a government commission into […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Keeping the House is the 2021 debut novel of North Londoner Tice Cin (pronounced Teejah Djin, for anyone like me whose English tongue wanders towards what it looks like to us). Set amongst the Turk…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
In Manya Wilkinson’s tragicomedy Lublin, three teenage boys walk from Medritsch (Międzyrzec Podlaski) to Lublin along a road none of them have traversed before, in more ways than one. It is August 1907. Elya, Kiva and Ziv are taking brushes manufactured by Kiva’s uncle to market. Elya has made himself leader of the expedition. He […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Since I posted my thoughts on the collapse of Unbound, author, journalist and drinks historian Henry Jeffreys has written about his experiences as an Unbound author in The Critic. His article, Balancing the books, provides some evidence of things I speculated about in my post, in particular the way Unbound co-founder John Mitchinson seems to […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
