Laurent Mauvignier

Dec 1, 2023 | expressdigest.com | Samantha Harvey |Richard Kelly |Laurent Mauvignier |Megan Barker

Literary FictionAnthony CumminsORBITALby Samantha Harvey(Cape £14.99, 144 pp)One of our most consistently surprising novelists rips up the rulebook again, taking us into space in the company of six astronauts circling Earth on the International Space Station. A boldly imaginative meditation on time and the nature of existence. THE BLACK EDENby Richard T.

Apr 13, 2023 | beyondwordslitfest.co.uk | Laurent Mauvignier |Lauren Elkin |Félicité Du Jeu

Talk"Imagine a Stephen King thriller hijacked by Proust" Lee Langley (The Spectator)Told in a rhythmic and propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party is a deft unravelling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present.