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Kirsty Logan

Hello! I’m Kirsty Logan, a writer of novels and short stories. My latest work is the Audible Original The Sound at the End. My other books are Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales.

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Kirsty Logan

Hello! I’m Kirsty Logan, a writer of novels and short stories. My latest work is the Audible Original The Sound at the End. My other books are Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales.

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July/August 2020 Reads

31st Aug 2020 in Books, News

It’s a short, sweet list this time, friends:

My Darling From the Lions, Rachel Long – Delicious, brutal, beautiful poems. I always struggle to review poetry because my thoughts basically boil down to “don’t like this/don’t get this” or “really like this”. Anyway I really like this. One of my best of the year.

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia – This book is mood: atmosphere, texture, colour, smell. It’s so vivid I feel like I lived in it. It’s more than just seeing the usual gothic tropes overlaid on a non-European setting; Mexico’s history and culture are vital to the narrative, and I didn’t realise until I read this how ideal Mexico is for a gothic story.

Darkly, Leila Taylor – Blackness, whiteness, and the gothic, all explored in a series of brief and perfect essays. I absolutely loved this book, and it’s one I’ll be returning to again and again.

The Silence of the Wilting Skin, Tlotlo Tsamaase – You need this beautifully-written Black queer ghost novella in your life.

 

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