Suzi Feay

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | David Annand |Suzi Feay |Alice Jolly |Randy Boyagoda

The football novel has a problem. The thing that is most interesting about the sport, to most novelists at least, is the tribalism it engenders, the way it stirs passions, demands loyalty and delineates groups.

2 months ago | spectator.com.au | Suzi Feay

The Foot on the Crown Bantam, pp.512, 20 Christopher Fowler was almost absurdly prolific, for much of his life combining fiction with a hectic job heading a film promotion company (he wrote the Alien tagline ‘In space no one can hear you scream’). His debut, the horror novel Roofworld, was inspired by the view from the top of his Soho office building.

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Toby Lichtig |David Annand |Suzi Feay |Alice Jolly

Georges Perec’s novella Les Choses (1965; Things, 1990, translated by David Bellos) was a response to the golden years of the postwar boom. Subtitled Une histoire des années soixante (A story of the Sixties), and narrated in a wry, detached but not wholly unsympathetic third-person plural, it concerns a young Parisian couple, Sylvie and Jérôme, driven by “a single passion, the passion for a higher standard of living”.

2 months ago | spectator.co.uk | Suzi Feay

Christopher Fowler was almost absurdly prolific, for much of his life combining fiction with a hectic job heading a film promotion company (he wrote the Alien tagline ‘In space no one can hear you scream’). His debut, the horror novel Roofworld, was inspired by the view from the top of his Soho office building. Soho Black took a satirical poke at the film world, while Spanky set a sexy demon loose in London. More novels, many collections of short stories and three memoirs followed.

Feb 5, 2025 | spectator.com.au | Suzi Feay

Base Notes: The Scents of Life White Rabbit, pp.288, 20 Ah, the scents of one’s youth! What hot, sour teenage kisses and grinding youth club discos would be conjured up for me by one whiff of Aqua Manda or the original Charlie. Adelle Stripe has constructed a memoir around 18 key fragrances, one for each chapter of her life, but true perfume addicts may find ‘the juice’ somewhat lacking.