This Year's Reading

[ninebelow]

#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

Comments

[andrewducker]

If the audience is everyone then, presumably, it's a book for everyone? Isn't that...tautological?

[ninebelow]

The audience isn't everyone. Despite what Gaiman says, it is clearly written as a children's book and children are the primary audience. The fact that lots of adults will buy it simply because it is written by Gaiman doesn't change this.

[iainjclark]

I prefer Riddell's covers, but McKean's interior art is fantastic.