Three of the Best
Three Aitken Alexander authors have been chosen by the ipaper as three of the best books published this year so far:- FICTION Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Evaristo’s sparkling prose and subversive plots surprise and intrigue. This imaginative, joy-filled eighth novel tells the story of black British womanhood through a variety of […]
Max Porter’s ‘truly unforgettable’ book Lanny pushes the boundaries of storytelling
Lanny, the title character of the stunning new novel from English writer Max Porter, is a special boy. Eleven years old, he is given to spontaneous song and joyful wandering, blessed with a mind honed to the questions underlying existence, making the most of the small English village where he has moved with his […]
Aitken Alexander represent 4 authors on the Gordon Burn Prize 2019 Shortlist chosen for their ‘Fearless and uncompromising’ books
The shortlist has been announced for the seventh annual Gordon Burn Prize. Ten years on from the death of writer Gordon Burn, whose work includes Happy Like Murderers, Alma Cogan, and Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel, the prize founded in his name has become one of the most highly anticipated on the literary landscape. The Gordon […]
Tim Lott: What caused Britain’s national nervous breakdown?
Between 2000 and the 2008 financial crash, tech’s brave new world unleashed changes that were meant to make us happier When did our country lose grip of its senses? Some will argue that we never had any in the first place, but others find a sharp contrast between the edgy, neurotic, angry, irrational country we […]
Max Porter on the Between the Covers podcast
Click here to have a listen. “In Lanny Max Porter has expanded on his innovative hybrid mode while remaining faithful to our species-wide tradition of storytelling through myth, magic, and parable, but also through the harrowing minutiae of being alive in the trying hours of a small town ruptured by loss. The result is a powerful yet […]
SALTWATER and THIS BRUTAL HOUSE are Image Magazine book club picks
Niven Govinden’s THIS BRUTAL HOUSE and Jessica Andrews’ SALTWATER have both been chosen for Image Magazine’s Book club.
Jung Chang makes Bookseller book of the month
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang has been chosen as The Bookseller’s October Book of the Month.
Mark Haddon on the magic of audiobooks: ‘I haven’t read a book properly until I’ve had it read to me’
Forget the snobs who treat the written word as superior. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime author explains why he’s a huge fan A confession. Until this year I’d never properly listened to the audiobook versions of my novels. I’d dipped in and out, but I’d never immersed myself completely. It’s not that the […]
Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma review – would you move to another planet?
Angst-ridden millennials escape Earth in this wry, melancholy fable that addresses the real pain of loneliness “Winter, pub, London, work.” In the opening pages of Luiza Sauma’s second novel, Iris Cohen reflects on the choice she made to abandon Earth and its soulless grind for life in another solar system. We find her on “a […]
New Statesman: What Is Wrong With Us by Rory Stewart
Britain is in crisis. To recover we need to rediscover a sense of shame and acknowledge how many unforgivable things are happening in the country. hat is wrong with us? The United Kingdom should be one of the most impressive democracies on Earth. We have incisive and apparently incorruptible judges; an undeferential, boisterous and […]