by NRB | 23 Jul 2013 | Fiction |
Why does this woman choose to live alone on an isolated sheep farm on a remote English island? A haunting new novel from the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In this neo-gothic pastorale, something or someone is brutally killing Jake Whyte’s sheep and prowling...
by NRB | 2 Jul 2013 | Fiction |
More than a coming-of-age story, this novel is a meditation on loneliness in the age of social media. I see him from the train as it pulls in at Newcastle. He’s not bad enough to make me run away. But he’s older than I thought. Old enough to be my …...
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