Mind Bending Fictions
When you’ve finished the book you will only just have begun… A wonderful meander through the world of Italo Calvino, writing and life itself.
A single book of finite pages containing a library of infinite books. Throw in a minotaur and mirror or two and you end up here. Or somewhere. Perhaps the greatest short-fiction writer ever?
Science Fiction of the grandest scale but ultimately a human story. A story of humanity. RIP Iain M Banks.
Gothic and dark, inventive and playful the Gormenghast trilogy has been lodged somewhere in the back of my mind for, I guess, decades now. Dark castles, birds that can speak, unknowable adventures and mischeif.
A book within a book, where the characters themselves are composed of words and ink. The very words and ink you’re reading the book through. Mind-bending and wonderful.
Book one of the Southern Reach trilogy. Just stunningly inventive fiction — part Raymond Chandler, part Old Man & The Sea, part Borges, part science fiction. Just wonderful, curious fiction.
