Dirty work: The Expansion Project, by Ben Pester, reviewed
A debut novel with echoes of Kafka, Flaubert and the office sitcom, this is a tale of one man’s days on the treadmill of life that is both poignant and disconcerting
Haunting short stories of fear and frustration
In Nicole Flattery’s Show Them a Good Time (Bloomsbury, £14.99), her female protagonists grapple with abusive relationships, degree courses, difficult…
How I singlehandedly kept the Will Self industry going
In 1994, Matthew De Abaitua, an aspiring writer and student on East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA, applies for a job…
