21st Century Fiction – Page 4

Sour Apples: A Novel For Those Who Hate To Read by Paul Jantzen

A book of boys and baseball which rolls along at a fair old pace, with humour, cracking dialogue and scrapes and incidents galore

Little Deaths is a book about character and about how what we see does not necessarily represent everything we think we know about someone

A book which reveals itself gradually, uncoiling before us while being told through the eyes of our narrator, Cadence, but can we trust her?

A powerful book that will stay with me a long time for all of the right reasons – thought-provoking, shrewd and frightening

I loved this book: the atmosphere, the people, the story, the pacing, the conclusion. Do I need to say more?

A book which is ostensibly about family but has a deeper discussion at its core involving humans and the way we treat other animals

A book about life, regrets and choices which has humour and warmth and prompts discussion about how life can best be lived

A book for our times, Mad Honey is a story of people, divisions, assumptions and wrong perceptions, with a murder trial at the centre of it

A truly original story which gives a “curse” cognitive function and personality as it tries to survive in the face of its enemies

Suzie suffers from schizophrenia and when this starts to drag her life into darker realms, we go with Landt’s narrative to the Mole People