[This is the twentieth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] A few weeks ago in a review of Anne Enright’s short story collection The Portable Virgin I made this observation: “[Short story collections seem] like something a publisherRead more…
[This is the sixteenth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] The sub-heading of this book is “A hundred-year novel”. This is no lie: the sum of the many disparate and delicately related stories in this novel do spanRead more…
[This is the fourteenth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] You know when you finish a book and spend the immediately proceeding half-hour sitting completely still, staring at nothing, the physical book forgotten but still in yourRead more…
