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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

I think it’s fair to say that Kurt Vonnegut’s writing tends to polarise people, you either love his work or hate it. Always quirky and full of the unexpected, he has a knack of exposing the madness of the everyday world and laying it bare in a way that is often highly amusing. Breakfast of [...]

Illywhacker by Peter Carey

Peter Carey has been a favourite author of mine since I first read Illywhacker more years ago than I care to remember. Some people just don’t get Illywhacker and seem to prefer Carey’s other early novels such as Oscar and Lucinda, and whilst I have to agree that it is at times a very strange [...]