Tim Martin

Self’s obsessions

15 July 2017 9:00 am

This 600-page, single-paragraph novel shuttles back and forth across time between the perspectives of an elderly and confused psychiatrist, a…

‘Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze...’ The infamous lynchings in Marion, Indiana, inspired the song ‘Strange Fruit’ and Laird Hunt’s weird novel

On the way to a lynching

29 April 2017 9:00 am

Southern trees bear a strange fruit in Laird Hunt’s seventh novel, a dark historical fiction filled with dreams and visions…