- The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
- Midnight’s Children
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
- The Satsuma Complex and The Hotel Avocado
- Wuthering Heights
- The Island of Missing Trees
- Table for Two
- A Nervous Breakdown
- Young Art and Old Hector
- The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
The horror comes through most strongly when exploring the toxicity of social media and the obsession with celebrity culture.
Midnight’s Children
The secrets of this novel are gradually revealed in a sublimely spiced chutney of storytelling.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Affluent characters that chat inanely about celebs while the poverty-stricken underclass, desperate for work, are forced to prostitute themselves (as the least they will do) as they turn on each other in a bid to survive their bleak existence.
The Satsuma Complex and The Hotel Avocado
Mortimer’s off-beat comedy comes through strongly in the narrative.
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff looms large over the wild and desolate Yorkshire moors and the dark house where he receives sanctuary in Brontë’s master study in character.
The Island of Missing Trees
Shafak writes beautiful prose and tells this relevant story through two voices.
Table for Two
A short fiction collection consisting of six New York stories and a novella set in Los Angeles.
Young Art and Old Hector
The rabbits and pheasants from the forests are for the stew, the salmon taken from the rivers is likewise for the table, and the whisky is for weddings and celebrations. It is for their community, and none of it is for selling, not for profit nor for making someone else rich.
The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
As you’d expect from Ayoade, it is deadpan and awkward, bringing wit, humour and a slice of surrealism to the mundane.
