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If publishing has leant increasingly on one-line pitches for rising attractions, few can have been as broadly reduced as Magnus Mills. ‘Bus driver turned novelist!’ crowed the press on the arrival of his debut, The Restraint of Beasts. As ever, the truth proved a little less cut and dry. Mills had held a string of [...]

Samantha Harvey’s debut occupies a territory somewhere inbetween Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Unconsoled” and Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time”. Like the former, the reader is plunged headlong into a confusing, surreal mindscape in which nothing is as it seems and nobody is to be trusted. Like the latter, at [...]