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Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

We have built so many mirrors, there are no windows to shatter. Having recently experienced a kind of bereavement (if the death of one’s love life could be considered thus), whilst, for some only peripherally understood reason, listening to the justifiably underappreciated album Racially Yours , and feeling like bombing the internet or some such futile act, I find I’m writing from a nagging sense of unfinished business, the blaring klaxon call of duty still audible in the distance behind the weirdly sexual and racist lyrics of The Frogs, rather than for the love of writing and of sharing my own strong feelings towards Jeff VanderMeer. In fact, I could just wipe this blog clean and fuck off to live in Eswatini where according to David from Eswatini beers are £1.50 quid a pint and steaks a mere £2.50 quid. But as someone, who was until recently in my life, once told me, I’m a responsible man who wouldn’t fuck off and leave his kids behind, whether literal or figurative. I paraphrase but

The Yips by Nicola Barker

James by Percival Everett

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

The Delivery by Margarita Garcia Robayo

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

The Cartoonist by Richard Beard

Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

Glyph by Percival Everett

Weasels In The Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

When Lions Roared: The Lions, The All Blacks, And The Legendary Tour Of 1971, by Tom English and Peter Burns

The Book Of Paradise by Itzik Manger

A Dead Man In Deptford by Anthony Burgess

Dr. No by Percival Everett

Love Murder by Saul Black

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

King Rat by China Miéville

Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor

The Android Mirror by Christopher Hall

Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes

From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami

There There by Tommy Orange

Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Quicksand by Steve Toltz

Gathering Evidence by Martin MacInness

Every Third Thought by John Barth

Zorrie by Laird Hunt

How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

The World And All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

Count Zero by William Gibson

Narrator by Bragi Ólafsson

Remainder by Tom McCarthy

Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss

The Sealed Knot by Clare Clark

H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker

Mr Kafka and Other Tales by Bohumil Hrabal

A Hanging At Cinder Bottom by Glenn Taylor

Angel's Inferno by William Hjortsberg

The Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies, by Richard Morgan

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

The Killing Lessons by Saul Black

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (The Complete Novels)