Carol Birch, Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate) £12.99
Carol Birch’s Booker-longlisted novel will delight anyone who’s read Dickens or Melville or any of their contemporary imitators and wants a cross between a Bildungsroman and a good old adventure yarn. Or at least it will for the first half of the book anyway. The narrator, Jaffy Brown, a mix of Oliver Twist, Ishmael and … Continue reading Carol Birch, Jamrach’s Menagerie (Canongate) £12.99
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