by NRB | 29 Aug 2023 | Fiction |
Benjamin Myers’ new novel is a homage to his home city of Durham and its patron saint. Award-winning British author Benjamin Myers was born in the northern English city of Durham in 1976. This is a fact to keep in mind when coming to his latest novel Cuddy,...
by NRB | 11 Jul 2017 | Fiction |
The short stories in Datsunland strike notes of moodiness and dark irony. Dreams and fantasies inform the lives of many of the doomed characters in this moody collection of 14 distinctly ‘literary’ stories. There is much here about fantasy, much about fate, about...
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