MAX PORTER Shy. Reviewed by Ann Skea

MAX PORTER Shy. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by | 4 May 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

Why does Shy act the way he does? Max Porter’s new novel achieves an unlikely empathy. What goes on inside the head of a very troubled teenager? Shy has, by his own account, been expelled from two schools, been arrested and cautioned, and has ‘sprayed, smoked,...
MAX PORTER Lanny. Reviewed by Ann Skea

MAX PORTER Lanny. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by | 18 Apr 2019 | Fiction | 2 comments

Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, returns with a new novel, Lanny, that taps into an ageless flow of folklore, feelings, fears and superstitions. Lanny is a wonderfully imaginative, innovative and unusual book and it is hard to write a...