Simon Spanton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Simon Spanton

@samatlounge The Overstory by Richard Powers. I'm not sure I would read anything else by him which bizarre given how much I adored this one. It wasn't the characters, it wasn't the plot - it was the TREES. So rare for a novel to change the way you see the natural world so fundamentally.

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@runalongwomble Kindred by Octavia Butler, which is sinking its narrative hooks in. The History and Topography of Ireland by Gerald of Wales. A rich and bonkers account from the 12th century.

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@LizUK The Hollows by Daniel Church. Starts as Claustrophobic Dales Folk Horror, then ramps up. Strong 30 Days of Night vibe but all happens over 3 terrifying nights. Four women lead the fightback.

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@GDRNorminton Have you read Lanny by Max Porter?

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@Damian_Barr What Remains by Rupert Callender. Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

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@Jenni_Fagan And to you Jenni. I've just added Hex to my TBR - so looking forward to it.

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@robpalkwriter I read Alan Dean Foster's (actually very good indeed) novelisation of Alien long before I was old enough to see the film.

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Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan - devilish goings on down through the centuries in an Edinburgh tenement building. O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker - Angela Carter meets Jeanette Winterson in the Highlands. Lanark by Alasdair Gray - phantasmagorical Glasgow and Dragonscale. https://t.co/H0SeRfxy45

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@GalleyBeggars Kathleen Jamie. Superbly unsentimental, sharply observed, nuanced poems about nature and the Scottish landscape but always coupled with concerns of people and family life.

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"It was a heavy rain, the sort of rain that falls in prison yards and beats a little firewood smoke back down garret chimneys, that leaks across floors, into forgotten prams, into the slaughterhouse and pots on the stove." The Lime Twig, John Hawkes