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…are you reading now? I had been waiting for ages to get my hands on a copy of Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan. It’s a beautiful ode to lost youth and male friendship written by one of our sharpest observers of modern masculinity. Told in two different timelines, Tully and James are great childhood pals in 1980s Glasgow and are looking forward to the good times, and a life full of music and travelling to gigs. When we meet them again in the future, they are coming to terms with their own mortality and facing a huge loss. …would you take to a desert island?

Alan Warner: Kitchenly 434 review – dreams and delusions in the backwaters of fame | reviews, news & interviews Alan Warner: Kitchenly 434 review – dreams and delusions in the backwaters of fame Alan Warner: Kitchenly 434 review – dreams and delusions in the backwaters of fame A bittersweet comic idyll from the last days of prog-rock by Boyd TonkinWednesday, 17 March 2021 New dawns over summer lawns: Alan WarnerGemma Day “They think it’s all drugs and sex up here, Mrs H.” “Bless me.” The reality, at Kitchenly Mill Race, runs more to a nice pot of Tetley’s and ...

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Favourite childhood read? I loved Joan Aiken’s Arabel’s Raven. There was something wonderful about this great anarchist, in the shape of a raven, coming to disturb the cosy suburban peace. Mortimer was a real punk. I loved his “Nevermore” answer to everything. Arabel was also incredibly cool, mainly because she levelled such clear-eyed, straightforward questions at all these shady, complicated characters. What was the first book to make an impact on you? Lorrie Moore’s Like Life. I first read it in my early 20s while living in Buenos Aires, on the 13th floor of a tower block –...

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury) The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria. The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking) Last year the Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel. Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N) A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins as a proposal to refurbish a village church ends in murder; Canon Daniel Clement must investigate. O...