Foyles top 10 fiction of 2011
“It’s been a gloriously bountiful year for fiction.” The Web Editor at Foyles Bookshops has named Sam Meekings’s The Book of Crows as one of the ten best new books of 2011!. “The obvious comparison here is David Mitchell and if Meekings doesn’t always quite match his ventriloquism, he certainly gives each story a […]
An academic perspective
A detailed review of Under Fishbone Clouds in Transnational Literature, Volume Two, Issue Two: “A large achievement: a clever and ironic, but at the same time deeply affecting novel about the way ordinary people bear the brunt of political and ideological movements far beyond their control; about what can, and cannot, survive the ravages of […]