Book title:
Hope: A Tragedy
Author name:
Shalom Auslander
Posted 14/02/2012
Solomon is a majorly pessimistic, hard-done-by hero in this brilliantly witty slice-of-Jewish-life black comedy.
Book title:
Pantheon
Author name:
Sam Bourne
Posted 16/02/2012
James Zennor, having been mentally and physically scarred from fighting in 1930s Spain, is stuck at home for the Second World War.
Book title:
My Friend Dahmer
Author name:
Derf Backderf
Posted 23/02/2012
Don’t come to this book for a definitive biography of a serial killer.
Book title:
A Death in the Family
Author name:
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Posted 29/02/2012
This is one of those hard-to-define books much loved in literary circles, where it could be fiction, and could equally be autobiography.
Book title:
Explorer
Author name:
Kazu Kibuishi
Posted 29/02/2012
Various artist graphic novel anthologies with a sustained level of quality are as rare as hen’s teeth in the adult market; for better success one has to go to the more child-friendly, young adult r