Ian Sansom

Nostalgia by Jonathan Buckley - review

This is the sort of book that could probably only have been published by Sort of Books, a small independent publisher whose shortlist of authors and titles includes the likes of cartoonist /musician/pataphysician Peter Blegvad, Moomin-maker Tove Jansson,

Exodus by Lars Iyer - review

In the third book in the trilogy, the most undynamic duo since Vladimir and Estragon continue their ramblings on the death of philosophy "That's why he's dreamt up our lecture tour of Britain, our last tour of the ruins of the humanities. We are to inves

London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing by Travis Elborough – review

Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian - review

Supernatural, science fiction and horror combine in this story of atonement set during the American civil war To recap: published in the US in 2001, Gob's Grief is the novel in which Chris Adrian - novelist, short story writer, paediatrician - sprang u

Sorry! The English and Their Manners by Henry Hitchings - review

A charming and erudite history of national etiquette One suspects that a man who writes a book about manners is in fact a seething, mad-eyed malcontent, and there are certainly moments in Sorry! The English and Their Manners when Henry Hitchings begins