IAN SHADWELL Slush Pile. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

IAN SHADWELL Slush Pile. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

This cautionary tale takes aim at the literary life. ‘I am not a normal person. I am a writer,’ declares Michael Ardenne, the antihero of Ian Shadwell’s takedown of literary narcissism. Michael is a prodigy, having won the Booker Prize for his first novel before he...