The perfect balance between humour and heartbreak: a vivid portrait of childhood innocence set against a backdrop of a family's quiet collapse.
I finished reading this book more than a week ago and it keeps running loops inside my mind, its eyes glazed over, its arms outstretched before it.
A cleverly composed family novel about care and climate.
In this frightening society of interchangeable robes, telescreens and plastic trays, much of the writing lands with the potency of a punch in the stomach.
Writing that feels like it glitters and levitates.
Recounting his years as a fighter pilot and writer, Salter's nostalgic and melancholic memoir drips with a Don Draper-esque masculinity.
“My first love was poetry, my second love was fiction and my third and lasting love was the essay.”
A cinematic glimpse into Armageddon.
Perfectly composed: a brilliant essay on care, grief, love and death.