![]() ![]() Understandable as Boyne’s dislike of “woke culture” may be, this “unsettling” novel won’t help his cause.ĭoubleday 432pp £16.99 The Week Bookshop £13.99 The Week Bookshop And on occasion, he’s positively offensive: one character, a Ukrainian dancer, is a “sort of Eastern European iteration of Little Black Sambo”. Boyne may be a snappy writer, but as a satirist he’s hit-and-miss. It didn’t for me, said Melissa Katsoulis in The Times. (In a tweet, he calls her Aidan rather than Nadia.) At a time when we urgently need good satire, this “uproariously funny” novel “delivers in spades”. The novel centres on “ageing chat-show host” George, who triggers a Twitter pile-on when he “deadnames” the receptionist at his solicitor’s office. ![]() ![]() In The Echo Chamber, he targets three “pet hates”, said Bert Wright in The Sunday Times: “smartphone technology social media and misdirected ‘wokeness’”. Book review: Borges and Me by Jay Parini.Book of the week: Silent Earth by Dave Goulson. ![]()
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