The Spider's House

Watching the livestreamed announcement of the Booker shortlist yesterday evening, I was beyond thrilled to see the selection of two of the books I care most about from this year, M.

Andrew Hook has been part of the weird fiction landscape for many years.

Anne Charnock’s most recent novel Bridge 108 (2020) was set in the same world as her Philip K.

Jim Sorrel is an engineer.

There are books that happen along at just the right moment.

Marion Scott was born in Croydon on New Year’s Day 1935.

So while this was happening in Edinburgh… …this was being awarded in London!

The Fall came into being in 1976, the year of the long, hot summer, fifty summers ago today.

‘The world’s over.

‘David Hockney changed the world just by looking at it,’ writes Jonathan Jones in today’s Guardian.

Seriously, if I read a book I like better this year, I will be dumbfounded.