Simon Lelic
our Guest Editor for January
Simon Lelic has worked as a journalist and currently runs his own business. He was born in Brighton in 1976 and recently returned with his family to live there. His first two novels Rupture and The Facility were huge critical successes. Rupture won a Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger and longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Simon was shortlisted in the New Writer of the Year category at the Galaxy British Book Awards.
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Simon Lelic on...
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Technically and philosophically, this is probably not McCarthy’s best book. His masterpiece, probably, is Blood Meridian – although I also love Child of God. And Outer Dark. And . . . Well, everything else McCarthy has produced. Click here to read more...
As If by Blake Morrison
A recent entrant into my ever-changing list of favourite books, this is another work I could read again and again – were it not so intensely heartbreaking. Click here to read more...
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Not exactly an original pick, I realise, and some (irrationally, in my mind) would dispute its literary merits. On the other hand, it has proved almost Shakespearean in its impact on the English psyche – and certainly on mine. Click here to read more...
The Paris Review Interviews, volumes I-IV edited by Philip Gourevitch
Is it cheating to pick four books as one? This collection is not literature in itself but each volume, through interviews with leading writers collated over the years, offers an indispensable insight into the minds of those who forge it. Click here to read more...
The Shining by Stephen King
I must have read every Stephen King novel published before, I’d say, 1996 – at which point, I stopped, mistakenly deciding that I was too old; that his stories weren’t ‘proper’ books; and that, if I really wanted to be a writer, I needed to broaden my literary horizons. Click here to read more...
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