Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman

“This is a novel for people with breeding” is the self-proclaiming tag-line for the novel Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman, son of Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books. It is an astonishingly accomplished debut that is highly erudite and original. Boxer, Beetle is intelligent and witty and one of the best debut novels I have read; [...]

The Return

Hello, all. I have officially returned from a holiday at home; I was back in London at the tail-end of last week but we enjoyed a few more days off de-compressing from our time away. Glasgow was … temperamental weather-wise; one day I was driving along a flooded street in torrential rain, water up to [...]

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