Blackmail! The Typing Ghost! Diabolism! Sudden death! Every time I read a Muriel Spark novel I'm reminded just how original, weird, dark and funny her imagination was

This is good. The tale of lowlife gambler Harryboy Boas, a shady fellow with his own moral code. So evocative of 1960s Hackney, a lost world of boarding houses and bomb craters. @faberbooks.bsky.social reissue #booksky

Airfix! Verrucas! Strange relatives! Underage drinking! Geoff Dyer's childhood memoir is v entertaining and funny (and the ending is surprisingly touching and wise.) Out in May

Sexual mania! Logging! A counting horse! A man shot by his own dog! So much packed into 116 pages. Magnificent

I respect this extreme commitment to punning . . . More titles in the Bakeshop Mystery Series include, Fudge and Jury, A Smoking Bun and *my favourite* A Batter of Life and Death

This is the most original, strange book I've read in ages. Full of vivid images/scenes: frozen horses in a lake, a basket full of human eyes, a moonlit giant elk, the "monsters" of Naples. .. extraordinary