The Unfortunates

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Dec 27, 20203 min read

Why "The Unfortunates"?

"Only a few years ago, it was Jennings schoolboy stories that I brought you. Now, I pack avant-garde books: Tom Mallin, Alan Burns, a...

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Aug 12, 20221 min read

Scene

My short story describing a scene from an imaginary film is available to read here: https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-scene-by-de...

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My short story 'Engaged therein' is available here:

https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-enga

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Feb 26, 20220 min read

My short story 'Engaged therein' is available here: https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-enga

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Feb 3, 20221 min read

Always Somewhere Else

My short story 'Always Somewhere else' is available to read online here:

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Pupa by J. O. Morgan (Henningham Family Press)

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Nov 28, 20213 min read

Pupa by J. O. Morgan (Henningham Family Press)

It doesn't take long for J. O. Morgan to establish the essential strangeness of both the setting and the central characters of this...

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Stories We Tell Our Children by Marc Nash (Lendal Press)

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Nov 21, 20214 min read

Stories We Tell Our Children by Marc Nash (Lendal Press)

By deciding to create an entire short collection around the many ways in which children are deceived, placated, fobbed-off, used to...

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Three Novels
by Ágota Kristóf (Grove Press)

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Oct 3, 20213 min read

Three Novels by Ágota Kristóf (Grove Press)

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels by Ágota Kristóf, Alan Sheridan (Translator of The Notebook), David Watson...

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The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender (V&Q Books)

dodmill

Sep 26, 20213 min read

The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender (V&Q Books)

For Hans Frambach, the middle-aged character who is central to The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika, translated by Abigail Wender...

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The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Joachim Neugroschel (Serpent's Tail)

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Aug 2, 20213 min read

The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Joachim Neugroschel (Serpent's Tail)

'The Piano Teacher' is like a piece of chamber music; a dissonant, serial composition with cold, confused Erika on piano, Mother on...

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dodmill

Jul 4, 20215 min read

Florilegia by Annabel Dover (Moist)

First, there is the image, then the thought about what we are looking at, followed by any associations that form from what we are seeing....

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Insignificance by James Clammer (Galley Beggar Press)

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Jun 13, 20213 min read

Insignificance by James Clammer (Galley Beggar Press)

Life hasn't been so good for Joseph Fobes, this past while. Both life and his job as a plumber have got Joe into some very awkward and...

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Nostalgia
by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Julian Semilian (New Directions/Penguin)

dodmill

May 27, 20212 min read

Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Julian Semilian (New Directions/Penguin)

I first read Mircea Cărtărescu's wondrous novel, ''Nostalgia' back in 2012, seven years after it had been published in translation by New...

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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride (Galley Beggar/Faber and Faber)

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Jan 9, 20213 min read

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride (Galley Beggar/Faber and Faber)

Oh, my emotions. My mixed emotions. My emotions mixed with dread. My dread that she wouldn't stop. Her not stopping. Stopping me from...

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Mr. Beethoven by Paul Griffiths (Henningham Family Press)

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Jan 3, 20214 min read

Mr. Beethoven by Paul Griffiths (Henningham Family Press)

All through last year, 250 years after his birth, Beethoven was remembered in as many ways as the year allowed, though not often with the...

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Only a Lodger ... and Hardly That: A Fictional Autobiography by Vesna Main (Seagull books)

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Dec 27, 20205 min read

Only a Lodger ... and Hardly That: A Fictional Autobiography by Vesna Main (Seagull books)

"I remember", we say. Then we begin to tell our version of what we can recall, filtered by how we felt at the time, what they failed to...

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