Michael Donkor

Nov 14, 2024 | msn.com | Michael Donkor

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Nov 14, 2024 | theguardian.com | Michael Donkor

Charles Lamosway, the lone wolf narrator of Morgan Talty’s debut, is uncompromising in his opinions, not least when he turns his gaze towards his own situation. On the state of his home in Maine, located by a river that borders the reservation of the Indigenous Penobscot people, Charles is blunt: “The kitchen chairs around the table jutted out and away, and the rug under the table was bunched up. The sink was filled with dishes and glasses and mugs.

Oct 3, 2024 | msn.com | Michael Donkor

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Oct 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Michael Donkor

In the middle of US author Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, set in the farming communities of Tabor, North Dakota, star-crossed teens Hugo Dumach and the fantastically named Kismet Poe are forced to part. The hilariously quixotic Hugo takes comfort in a quilt, a keepsake his beloved has left him: “It [was] sewed out of her T-shirts [and] held a history of her […] The first T-shirts she wore were stamped with unicorns, dolphins, white-maned ponies, and ballet dancers.

Sep 28, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Michael Donkor |Anna Bonet

It’s been seven years since we were last gifted a new work by Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker winner frequently described as the foremost English prose stylist of his generation. So the publication of his latest, seventh, novel is rightly a significant literary event and cause of celebration. But such breathless, heady, eager expectation is beautifully at odds with the abiding quietude and mellowness of Our Evenings.