SOLAR BONES – MIKE McCORMACK (CANONGATE)

Solar Bones

LONGLISTED LAST month for the 2017 Man Booker Prize (along with Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End), Mike McCormack’s experimental novel tells the story of Marcus Conway, a civil engineer in his early 50s. On All Souls’ Day, 2008, he is alone in the kitchen of his home in Louisburgh, Co Mayo (“a bordered realm of… Read more »