Secret Garden or Secret Seven?
Provided the rest of England isn’t immersed under water by then, The Idler will be hosting a tent at the Secret Garden party near Huntingdon, Cambs this weekend. The Idler‘s Matthew De Abaitua will be reading from his debut novel The Red Men (“makes Houellebecq seem like Enid Blyton” says Matt Thorne) at the event, […]
Excerpt: The Red Men
This was only the second time I had encountered a robot. The sight of them made me anxious. Specifically, they reminded me of the time when I was unwell and susceptible to anxiety-induced hallucinations, distortions of perspective and the like. A time when the blinkers were off. When the screens were down. In the five years since then, a programme of sanity and moderation – a three-pint maximum, early nights and no weekend newspapers – had restored my powers.
Read an exclusive excerpt from Matthew De Abaitua‘s The Red Men here.
The Raw Shark Texts‘ Text
Steven Hall‘s The Raw Shark Texts (3:AM reviews here and here and Steven’s short story ‘Not Jesus Yet’ from 2005 here) tells us about the book’s transmogrifications and variances in translation: “The UK first edition had green ink, the Canadian hardback had an index, the narrator of my next book has a tiny cameo in […]