August Round-Up – The Books I Read In August 2015

In August I read eight books – seven fiction and one non-fiction: The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney (John Murray) – perhaps my favourite of all the books I read this month, a brilliant, gritty debut. A murder with an unlikely culprit has consequences for a group of flawed characters making up an Irish ‘underworld’. …

The Chimes by Anna Smaill

Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, The Chimes is an inventive take on the dystopian novel. Our protagonist is Simon Wythern, an orphan who arrives in London into a totalitarian society where everyone is controlled by music, and memory is forbidden. Admittedly, this was a book that took me a while to get into. …