Philip Womack

3 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Francesca Tiana |Philip Womack |Oonagh Devitt Tremblay |Heather White

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe hereCursed mirrorStories of alienation and self-sabotageIn Rejection, Tony Tulathimutte prises open and peers into the ugliest parts of the modern psyche. Following the author’s debut novel, Private Citizens (2016), this collection of short stories is concerned with the effects of rejection by romantic partners, friends and even society itself.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Philip Womack

The Patrick Melrose sequence, by Edward St Aubyn, comprises five autobiographical novels, including the Booker-shortlisted Mother's Milk (2005). They document Melrose's trajectory from a wretched upper-class childhood, in which he's sexually abused by his father, through heroin addiction and, eventually, a hard-won redemption.

3 weeks ago | philipwomack.substack.com | Philip Womack

I was given Jenny Nimmo’s The Snow Spider for my 9th birthday. There had been a TV adaptation (which I hadn’t seen); even now, I remember the spell that it cast, not least because it beings with the hero, Gwyn Griffiths, also reaching the grand old age of 9. Womack's Wanderings is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

1 month ago | philipwomack.substack.com | Philip Womack

In my third year at university, I studied twentieth century literature for a term. The Oxford system allows you to choose what you want to read, and so I looked at all my favourites. This may or may not have been a good strategy, given my mark in my final exam, but nevertheless, I enjoyed it: Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, P G Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf, Saki et alia. A dream syllabus.

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