Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
8 best books like Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (B.S. Johnson): Girl, Woman, Other, Patience, The Complete Stories, The Slaves of Solitude, Flowers of Mold, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Third Policeman, Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine
Author | Bernardine Evaristo |
ISBN | 0241364906 |
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
MEET ELLIOTT.
Elliott is something of a genius. He is hugely intelligent. He’s an incredible observer. He is able to memorise and categorise in astonishing detail. He has a beautiful and unusual imagination.
More than that, Elliott is an ideal friend. He is overflowing with compassion...
Author | Franz Kafka |
ISBN | 0805210555 |
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception...
Author | Patrick Hamilton |
ISBN | 1590172205 |
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has become a way of life. Heroic resistance is old hat. Everything is in short supply, and tempers are even shorter.
Overwhelmed by the terrors and rigors of the Blitz, middle-aged Miss Roach has retreated...
Author | Ha Seong-nan |
ISBN | 1940953960 |
Praised for her meticulous descriptions and ability to transform the mundanity of everyday life into something strange and unexpected, Ha Seong-nan bursts into the English literary scene with this stunning collection that confirms Korea's place at the forefront of contemporary women's writing....
Author | Alan Sillitoe |
ISBN | 0452269091 |
To Arthur Seaton, Key worker on a lathe in a Nottingham cycle factory, life is one long battle with authority. You don't need to give Arthur more than one chance to do the Government or trick the foreman.
And when the day's work is over, Arthur is off to the pubs, raring for adventure. He is a warrior...
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of...
Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas... So begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know only as Mrs. Unguentine, the chronicler of their sad, fantastical tale. For forty years, they sail the seas...