#51 Underground by Tobias Hill

You can tell this is a debut novel and you can tell he is a poet (excess of simile) but it is still bloody good (piercingly accurate simile). Extremely confident and ambitious for a writer who was still in his twenties.

I think this means I have read all Hill's fiction apart from his latest one, The Hidden, which ( Read more... )

#25 Skin by Tobias Hill

Another poet turned novelist, Hill makes his prose debut with this rather fine short story collection.

Note to talvalin: this collection contains stories set in Japan.

#26 Siberia by Ann Halam ( Read more... )