Allen Bratton

Aug 25, 2024 | inkl.com | Allen Bratton

Julia Armfield, left, and Eliza Clark. Photograph: Amit Lennon/The Observer When Eliza Clark’s debut novel, Boy Parts, came out in the summer of 2020, it almost slipped under the radar. But before long, the buzz on TikTok catapulted the book into cult status.

Jun 7, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Michael Woodson |Allen Bratton

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it one thousand times: Pride month is not the only time to read books about and by LGBTQ+ people. Like many marginalized communities who are offered one month a year, the standard backlash typically goes something like, “Why don’t straight people get a month?” Reader: Straight people get the other 11 months. There’s no wrong way to celebrate Pride month. There’s also no reason you shouldn’t be proud all year long.

May 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Val McDermid |Allen Bratton

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Apr 16, 2024 | londonreviewbookshop.co.uk | Kaliane Bradley |Allen Bratton |Holly Williams |Jo Hamya

Number one with a bullet in my picks for this spring is Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time. If you, like me (and more importantly, like Kaliane Bradley), got deeply obsessed with the television show The Terror during lockdown, this is the book for you: the cleverest, most imaginative, most well-written HMS Erebus fan fiction you’ll ever have the pleasure to read.

Apr 16, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Allen Bratton |Rachel Hullett

BookBrowse: Allen Bratton's debut, a contemporary queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, follows Hal, son and heir of the Duke of Lancaster, through drug-addled sexual encounters in the London party scene as he grapples with his complicated family legacy. Allen Bratton's Henry Henry chronicles a year in the life of Hal Lancaster.