Jeremy Wikeley

Oct 29, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Jeremy Wikeley

She’s Always Hungry is the third book by Eliza Clark Credit: Robin Silas Christian/Faber Eliza Clark belongs to a generation of novelists writing, from inside the bowels of the internet, for people who grew up there. Her books disdain convention, especially around sexuality and gender. They’re concerned with appetites of all kinds: drugs, booze, power, cruelty, and the way all these are fuelled by social media and social expectations. Her first book, Boy Parts (2020), a comic, violent...

Sep 5, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Jeremy Wikeley

An 1897 illustration depicting Dolly's Coffee House, in the City of London Credit: Getty Soon after we encounter Henry Nash, the narrator of Mark Bowles’s debut novel, we learn he has been trying to write a “monograph” about his late father – “a violent man, who brought with him his own violent weather”. That father beat the child Henry viciously, yet after a breakdown at work, became a different person: loving, eccentric, writing songs and buying rare seeds from “a man named Bob in Devon”....

Sep 4, 2024 | engelsbergideas.com | Jeremy Wikeley

The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading, Sam Leith, Oneworld, £30Children eat books up. Often, when they are small, they literally eat them. One of the many (delicious) asides in The Haunted Wood, Sam Leith’s new ‘history of childhood reading’, tells the story of a child who wrote to Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, and received a drawing of a ‘Wild Thing’ in return. The boy’s mother wrote back: ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ Sendak took it as a compliment.

May 30, 2024 | msn.com | Jeremy Wikeley

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May 30, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Jeremy Wikeley

Main Street in Butte, Montana (c1900), the setting of The Heart in Winter Credit: Hulton Archive Kevin Barry’s fourth novel is billed, a little oddly, as his “first Western”, and one 25 years in the making. It’s a bold claim for a slim book. We’re in Butte, a small town in 1890s Montana.