The winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction will be announced tomorrow, so I thought I’d do a quick round-up of the nominees. This was the first time I read the entire shortlist of a literary award. For a mood-reader, it wasn’t always the most fun! But I hoped it would give me a [...]
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi (Bloomsbury Publishing: 2021, 9781526622440) Piranesi is a man who lives in a labyrinth-like house of apparently infinite rooms filled with statues. The lower floor has a sea and bodies of water, tides, waves, etc and the upper floors have birds and the / a sky. The house is Piranesi’s world. Initially the [...]
Absurd Reviews 